Topics may be selected from the following PHD research areas.

• Clinical intervention studies which will generate evidence based nursing practice.

• Practice standards in various nursing specialties.

• Nursing education – measurement, evaluation of competencies, innovation in india.

• Teaching strategies.

• Manpower planning.

• Cost benefit analysis.

• Quality assurance in education and practice.

• Development of tools

• Testing of nursing theories and models and theory development.

• Impact studies, which are having policy implication for nursing education and service.

• Independent nursing practice

Guidelines

• Sample size should be large enough to arrive at generalization of the findings