Title of my assignment: “The impact of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes in Illinois”
 
 

Assignment 1: Prospectus Form: Purpose Section

This week you will be completing the Purpose section of the Prospectus Form. For the Purpose section, you will describe what you will compare, explore, or examine in order to address your stated research problem.  Be sure to clarify your variables/concepts of interest. For example, state what needs be studied by describing two or more factors (variables) and a conjectured relationship among them related to the identified gap or problem.
For details on completing the Purpose section see the DHA Program Prospectus Support site information for the Research Problem and Purpose. The DHA Program Prospectus Support site is located on the DHA Doctoral Study webpage. (https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/research-center/program-documents/dhaSummer2021)
Samples of Purpose Section is in the bottom of the Prospectus Form
 
Assignment: Prospectus Form: Research Question(s) and Hypothesis Section
This week you will be completing the Research Question(s) and Hypothesis (if applicable) section of the Prospectus Form. For the Research Question(s) section, you will list the question(s) that will be used to address the research problem. Your questions must align with your study purpose and include the dependent and independent variables and how they will be examined.
Samples of Research Question(s) and Hypothesis Section are in the bottom of the Prospectus Form
 
Here is a government dataset on COVID-19 nursing homes for potential research questions.  You need to identify a few variables to study the relationship between an independent variable and an outcome variable in your research question.
 
https://data.cms.gov/covid-19/covid-19-nursing-home-data
 
Illinois department of public health to look for covid data in nursing home
 
CDC dataset
 
 
 
The research problem and research question need to focus on the operations of a health services organization, rather than individual patient health.  I don’t think COVID-19 mortality is directly related to an HSO, since it depends on patient risk factors.
 
I think you could study COVID-19 vaccination as the outcome and consider nurse staffing as the independent variable.  The problem would be that there is a nursing shortage and this may lead to lower rates of COVID-19 vaccination.
 
With these listed above I think you’ll be able to create 2 or more questions