Perspectives and corrective processes: Evaluating social justice in a nursing PhD program

Efforts to integrate tenets of social justice into PhD nursing programs are long-standing but have intensified in the past few years in response to civil unrest, threats to human rights, and health inequities exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we present an overview of our School of Nursing ’s efforts and processes to evaluate and ensure that social justice principles were reflected throughout the PhD program. Components of this initiative included (a) forming a Social Justice Taskforce, (b) conducting listening sessions with alumni and currently enrolled PhD students to understand s tudent experiences, (c) surveying PhD students to aid in prioritization of recommendations for improvement, and (d) convening key stakeholders to connect student priority areas to institutional programs and practices.

Source: Nursing Outlook - June 9, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Ravenne Aponte, Rachel French, Dalmacio Dennis Flores, Lea Ann Matura, Terri H. Lipman, J. Margo Brooks Carthon Source Type: research