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• What are the philosophical tenets of empowerment and what are their implications for the help-receiving and help-giving process?
• Two theories that underpin human behavior in the process of making and adhering to health behavior changes are the relapse prevention model and the transtheoretical model. What assumptions about human behavior underlie these theories? Evaluate the strengths and limitations of creating a synthesized model using these two theories.
• What are the interrelationships and conceptual overlaps between spirituality, religion, and prayer within the context of suffering?
• What are the similarities and differences between symbolic interactionism and the modeling and role-modeling theory of nursing? Which one will provide the most useful sensitizing framework for research with youth who have molested children?
• What is the relationship between cognitive deconstruction and self-coherence and their influence on the behavior of youth who have molested children?
• Discuss the theoretical frameworks of child development and social support in relation to understanding sibling adaptation to the childhood chronic illness experience. What do these frameworks provide that promotes the understanding of sibling adjustment to the chronic illness experience?
• How do the theories of development and social support facilitate an understanding of sibling adaptation to chronic illnesses of childhood?
• What are the philosophical tenets of social support and what are their implications for the providing care to siblings of chronically ill children?
• What are the philosophical tenets of social support and what are their implications for the providing care to siblings of chronically ill children?
• Critically analyze Rubin’s theory of maternal tasks, Orem’s theory of self-care, and Pender’s health promotion model for their contribution to the study of health promotion actions in pregnancy.
• Critique the stages of change construct, in the Transtheoretical Model, as a framework for explaining smoking behavior of adolescents, and then identify implications for using the model with 11-and 12 -year-old children.

• What methodological issues need to be considered in measuring outcomes of case management strategies for health care delivery and in measuring family characteristics?
• Self-report measurement of exercise and physical activity has been problematic in terms of accuracy and reliability. Critically analyze each of these two concepts (exercise & physical activity) and self-report methods used to measure adherence to each, emphasizing advantages and disadvantages as well as reliability and validity.
• Investigate the critical issues related to the design of an instrument for the measurement of prayer and prayer experiences in people with cancer and provide a comparative analysis of existing instruments including the adapted Prayer Scale.
• What are the similarities and differences between analytic induction and grounded theory methodology? Which one is the more appropriate methodology for research with youth who have molested children?
• Youth who have molested children are a vulnerable population from several perspectives. What are the best methods for protecting these vulnerable children when they are subjects of research?
• Compare and contrast the philosophical underpinnings of various measures for enhancing the validity of data obtained from child participants in clinical research.
• How does development affect the gathering of data with children and what challenges does a researcher face when children are the research participants?
• Investigate the critical issues related to the design of an instrument for the measurement of social support and siblings of children with cancer. Discuss the instrument to be used (Nurse-Sibling Support Questionnaire) and provide a comparative analysis with existing instrument(s).     
• Critically analyze various research designs for the best design/method for the development of a prenatal health behaviors instrument and designate those properties most relevant to the development of such an instrument. 
• Discuss the important issues of conducting research with 11- to 12- year- old children in terms of assent, consent, and reliability of self-report instruments (eg.structured questionnaires) 
  

• How can self-esteem be enhanced for the families of children with special health care needs within a socio-political-economic context?
• Discuss the unique experience of cardiovascular disease in women and the resulting implications this has for cardiac rehabilitation programs.
• Analyze the interaction of specific health needs of adults with lung cancer including management of symptoms, sense of well-being, exploration of meaning, and expansion of spirituality.
• What is known about treatment of youth who have molested children? Where are the gaps in the literature? What is needed for a more complete understanding of the treatment process? What is needed for forensic nursing practice?
• What are the existing methods for synthesizing inductively generated theoretical frameworks? In what ways are they useful for guiding literature reviews? How are they incomplete? What is the best way to increase the reliability and validity of the process?
• Considering the effects of childhood cancer on healthy siblings, summarize the research relating to this phenomenon and identify the gaps in the research literature.
• Discuss the unique experience of healthy children who have a sibling with cancer and the resulting implications this experience may have for long-term adjustment of the healthy child.    
• Critically analyze the domains of prenatal health behaviors and risk behaviors of women during pregnancy that contribute to healthy outcomes in pregnancy. 
• Critically analyze the trends and identify high risk factors associated with Taiwanese adolescents' smoking behavior.