Content Analysis of Dissertations for Examination of Priority Areas of Nursing Science

While nursing as a profession can be traced to Nightingale, nursing as a discipline made its debut into academe relatively recently (McEwen& Bethel, 2000) in the United States and internationally (Ketefian et al., 2001). Over the last forty years, research-focused doctoral education has changed little. A dissertation mentorship model is ubiquitous (Bova et al., 2018). Required core curricular components and competencies are staid and poorly adopted across schools (Gill, 2012; McEwen& Bethel, 2000; Thompson et al., 2018; Wyman& Henly, 2015) and consensus related to core disciplinary knowledge and nursing ontology remains elusive (Cowling, 2005; Grace et al., 2016; Thorne, 2014).

Source: Nursing Outlook - August 4, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Patricia K. Strobehn, Lanell M. Bellury, Angie C. King, Justus J. Randolph Source Type: research