Research Project Ideas

For my research paper I am interested in researching about nursing equality among minorities. This meaning that nurses are supposed to be caring and understanding of all cultures and to provide adequate health care regardless. Another topic that I am considering is researching nursing in rural areas and how competent the care is. In two of my nursing classes we are discussing the importance of understanding and relating to various cultures. We are taught to not be judgmental of others regardless of their age, looks,class, occupation, etc. We discuss ways to put our personal judgments aside and provide high quality, low cost health care to anyone who walks into a hospital, clinic or doctor's office. We need to work with and work for the patients because helping them work towards an optimal health state is a nurse's number one priority. After all we are the patients advocate. Since I am a nursing major these possible research projects obviously have a huge impact on nursing. The second option is dealing with nursing in rural areas. By rural I mean places that are more then an hour or so away from other forms of civilization. In nursing we just discussed a nurse who was the only health care provider on an island. She had difficulty identifying certain medical conditions and needed to find a way to gain information about the conditions. She got in contact with doctors and physicians assistants on the mainland. Together they developed communication through the Internet help the nurse. The technology after a certain time ended. Just recently this technology has become more advanced. I would like to know if other rural areas are taking advantage of this technology and how high or low the success rate is. Researching either one of these topics is important to me because health care should be offered to everyone regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or anything else. It is important because I come from a rural area and it may be hard for some people to receive health care. In regards to the other topic it will help people to better understand the underlying problems of equal health care opportunities. I can conduct my research by interviewing several of my nursing professors and also my fellow nursing peers on their thoughts and ideas for how to overcome these health care challenges.