1. Your area of interest: What specific topic within Advanced Nursing Inquiry and Evidence-Based Practice are you drawn to? This could be related to clinical practice, leadership, education, or anything else that piques your curiosity.
2. The population you want to focus on: Who will your research be about? Are you interested in specific patient populations, nurses, healthcare teams, or another group?
3. The problem or question you want to answer: What is the gap in knowledge or area of concern you want to investigate? Formulating a clear question will guide your research direction.

Once you provide these details, I can offer several research and null hypotheses options you can refine and choose from. Remember, a good research question will lead to specific, testable hypotheses, so the more focused your question is, the better.

Here are some examples to get you started:

Area of Interest: Patient engagement in care planning Population: Patients with chronic cardiovascular disease Does providing patients with interactive online tools to access their medical records and participate in treatment decisions improve medication adherence compared to traditional care without online tools?

Null hypothesis: There is no difference in medication adherence between patients with chronic cardiovascular disease who use online tools for care planning and those who receive traditional care without online tools.

Area of Interest: Nursing leadership styles Population: Nurse managers in public hospitals Does adopting a participative leadership style, characterized by shared decision-making and employee empowerment, lead to higher nurse satisfaction and lower turnover rates compared to an authoritative leadership style?

Null hypothesis: There is no difference in nurse satisfaction and turnover rates between public hospitals with nurse managers who use a participative leadership style and those with managers who use an authoritative style.