This list of nursing research paper topics is a comprehensive, authoritative, yet concise guide to current nursing research literature.
Nurses at all levels of preparation and in all clinical specialties will find this an important introduction to the extent of nursing research. This list would be most helpful to basic and graduate students. The thematic articles provide the reader with an important starting point for future content and references and a timely source of the most relevant and recent research. The alphabetical ordering of articles is provided to assist the reader in easily locating a topic. Every effort has been made to be inclusive of all relevant terms in nursing research, which were selected on the basis of the existing nursing research literature.
250 Nursing Research Paper Topics
- Acculturation
- Action Science
- Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer
- Acute Care of the Elderly
- Addiction Care
- Adherence/Compliance
- Advance Directives
- Ageism
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Applied Research
- Basic Research
- Behavioral Research
- Biofeedback
- Boykin and Schoenhofer: The Theory of Nursing as Caring
- Breastfeeding
- Cancer in Children
- Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Cholesterol
- Caregiver
- Caring
- Case Study as a Method of Research
- Causal Modeling
- Cerebral Ischemia
- Child Delinquents
- Child–Lead Exposure Effects
- Childbirth Education
- Chronic Illness
- CINAHL® Database
- Clinical Care Classification System
- Clinical Decision Making
- Clinical Judgment
- Clinical Nursing Research
- Clinical Preventive Services
- Clinical Trials
- Cochrane Review
- Cohort Design
- Collaborative Research
- Comfort Theory
- Community Mental Health
- Comparative Effectiveness Research
- Complementary and Alternative Practices and Products
- Concept Analysis
- Conceptual Model (Framework)
- Consortial Research
- Content Analysis
- Continuing Care Retirement Communities
- Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
- Cost Analysis of Nursing Care
- Critical Care Nursing Research
- Cultural/Transcultural Focus
- Current Procedural Terminology-Coded Services
- Data Analysis
- Data Collection Methods
- Data Management
- Data Stewardship
- Delirium
- Delphi Technique
- Depression and Cardiovascular Diseases
- Depression in Families
- Depression in Older Adults
- Depression in Women
- Descriptive Research
- Diabetes Research
- Discourse Analysis
- Doctoral Education
- Domestic Violence
- Drinking and Driving Among Adolescents
- Eating Disorders
- Elder Mistreatment
- Electronic Network
- Emergency Nursing
- Empathy
- End-of-Life Planning and Choices
- Enteral Tube Placement
- Epilepsy
- Ethics of Research
- Ethnogeriatrics
- Ethnography
- Evaluation
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Experimental Research
- Exploratory Studies
- Factor Analysis
- Failure to Thrive (Adult)
- Failure to Thrive (Child)
- Falls
- Family Caregiving and the Seriously Mentally Ill
- Family Health
- Fatigue
- Feminist Research Methodology
- Fetal Monitoring
- Fever/Febrile Response
- Fitzpatrick’s Rhythm Model
- Formal Nursing Languages
- Functional Health Patterns
- Genetics
- Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
- Grantsmanship
- Grounded Theory
- Health Conceptualization
- Health Disparities in Racial and Ethnic Minorities
- Health Disparities: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
- Health Policy and Health Service Delivery
- Health Services Research
- Hemodynamic Monitoring
- Henderson’s Model
- Hermeneutics
- History of Nursing Research
- HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment
- HIV Risk Behavior
- HIV Symptom Management and Quality of Life
- Home Care Technologies
- Home Health Classification Systems
- Home Health Systems
- Homeless Health
- Hospice
- Hypertension
- Immigrant Women
- Infection Control
- Consent
- Instrument Translation
- Instrumentation
- International Classification for Nursing Practice
- International Nursing Research
- Interpersonal Communication: Nurse–Patient
- Job Satisfaction
- Johnson’s Behavioral System Model
- Kangaroo Care (Skin-to-Skin Contact)
- King’s Conceptual System and Theory of Goal Attainment
- Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
- Maternal Anxiety and Psychosocial Adaptation During Normal and High-Risk Pregnancy
- Measurement and Scales
- Menopause
- Mental Health in Public Sector Primary Care
- Mental Health Services Research
- Mental Status Measurement: Mini-Mental State Examination
- Mentoring
- Meta-Analysis
- Middle-Range Theories
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Moral Distress
- Moral Reckoning
- Mother–Infant/Toddler Relationships
- Music Therapy
- Narrative Analysis
- National Institute of Nursing Research
- Neuman Systems Model
- Neurobehavioral Development
- Newman’s Theory of Health
- Nightingale, Florence
- Nosocomial Infections
- Nurse Engagement
- Nurse-Led Group Clinic Visits
- Nurse and Physician Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Nurse Staffing
- Nursing Assessment
- Nursing Diagnosis, Interventions, and Outcomes
- Nursing Education
- Nursing Information Systems
- Nursing Occupational Injury and Stress
- Nursing Practice Models
- Nursing Process
- Nutrition in Infancy and Childhood
- Nutrition in the Elderly
- Obesity
- Observational Research Design
- Orem’s Self-Care Theory
- Organizational Culture
- Organizational Design
- Osteoporosis
- Outcome Measures
- Pain
- Palliative Care
- Parenting Research in Nursing
- Parse’s Humanbecoming School of Thought
- Participant Observation
- Patient Care Delivery Models
- Patient Contracting
- Patient Education
- Patient Safety
- Patient Satisfaction
- Pediatric Primary Care
- Pender’s Health Promotion Model
- Peplau’s Theoretical Model
- Pet Therapy
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Nursing
- Physical Restraints
- Physiology
- Pilot Study
- Population Health
- Populations and Aggregates
- Postpartum Depression
- Pregnancy
- Prevention of Preterm Birth, Preterm Labor, and Low Birth Weight
- Primary Nursing
- Qualitative Research
- Quality of Care
- Quality of Life
- Quantitative Research
- Quasi-Experimental Research
- Reliability
- Reminiscence
- Replication Studies
- Research Dissemination
- Research in Nursing Ethics
- Research Interviews (Qualitative)
- Research Utilization
- Resourcefulness
- Rights of Human Subjects
- Rogers’ Science of Unitary Persons
- Roy Adaptation Model
- Rural Health
- Sampling
- Schizophrenia
- Secondary Data Analysis
- Self-Efficacy
- Serious Mental Illness
- Shivering
- Simulation
- Sleep Science
- Smoking Cessation
- Smoking/Tobacco as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor
- SNOMED Clinical Terms
- Social Support
- Spirituality
- Statistical Techniques
- Story Theory
- Stress
- Stress Management
- Stroke
- Structural Equation Modeling
- Substance Use Disorders in Registered Nurses
- Systematic Review
- Telehealth
- Telenursing/Telepractice
- Telepresence
- Terminal Illness
- Theoretical Framework
- Thermal Balance
- Time Series Analysis
- Transitional Care
- Transitions and Health
- Translational Research
- Triangulation
- Uncertainty in Illness
- Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
- Validity
- Violence
- Virtual Nurse Caring
- Vulnerable Populations
- Wandering
- Watson’s Theory of Human Caring
- Weight Management
- Wellness
- Widows and Widowers
- Women’s Health
- Workplace Violence
A preliminary list of nursing research paper topics was compiled from a wide variety of sources, including nursing and allied health textbooks, general medical encyclopedias, and consumer health guides.