High turnover rates among nurses in nursing homes and what can be done to lower these high rates.

  FOR A RESEARCH CLASS: Craft an abbreviated quantitative research plan (2-3 pages) for your proposal. Apply the specific research method that seeks to answer your research problem and research questions/hypotheses. MY RESEARCH TOPIC: Why there are such high turnover rates among nurses in long-term care facilities and what research/ effective methods can be done to lower the high turnover rates. Your abbreviated quantitative research plan you should include: • An introduction • A purpose statement • Viable research questions and hypotheses A written research plan that addresses the following questions: • What are your research questions? To what extent can you test them? How would you justify the viability of your questions? • What are your hypotheses? How would you test them? • Why would this design be the most appropriate for answering the research questions? Conversely, why would qualitative method design not be appropriate? • What quantitative approach would you select for this study? Why is that approach the most appropriate one for answering the research questions? • What is your target population? How would you identify and recruit participants? What factors would contribute to determining appropriate sample size? (You do not need to calculate sample size for the assignment). • What are the independent and dependent variables? • What instruments might you use? • What data collection procedures might you use? Why would those be the most appropriate methods to use? How would that data help answer your research questions/hypotheses? • What are threats to validity? How might you mitigate them? • What are the ethical considerations related to your plan?