Emerging areas of science: Recommendations for Nursing Science Education from the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Idea Festival

Emerging areas of nursing science and PhD education for the 21st century: Response to commentaries

“…The impact of the faculty shortage on nursing research is of special concern and intersects with the question of "who" can be a nursing scientist (Villarruel & Fairman, 2015). Securely integrating emerging areas of science into PhD programs will require interdisciplinary collaboration (Breslin et al, 2015 andKnafl andGrey, 2008) as well as the appointment of qualified scientists in related fields to tenure-accruing positions in schools and colleges of nursing (Henly et al, 2015a). Ensuring diversity in the scientific workforce requires ongoing institutional commitment responsive to the motivation and needs of students from underrepresented groups aspiring to become nursing scientists (e.g., Henly et al, 2006 andKim et al, 2009).…”

“…Likewise, we are grateful to the anonymous peer reviewers who questioned us about some critical issues that we will address here. Our articles (Henly et al, 2015a andHenly et al, 2015b) and the commentaries focused on challenges involved in integrating advances in omics including the microbiome; behavior, behavior change, and biobehavioral science; escience, informatics, and big data; quantitative sciences; translational science; patient-reported outcomes; and health economics into nursing PhD programs.…”

“…None of these eventualities were imaginable at the time quality standards, and curricula were proposed and adopted for nursing PhD programs (Jamann, 1985). The current NINR (2011) strategic plan acknowledged the impact of technology on nursing science; Grady (2015) reiterated that innovation and technology constitute cross-cutting areas vital to the advancement of nursing science and health care; the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN, 2010) position statement on the research doctorate included data, information, and knowledge management, processing, and analysis as key curricular elements; and we included advances in quantitative sciences including data mining methods as an emerging area with substantial relevance to nursing science (Henly et al, 2015b) and nursing science education (Henly et al, 2015a).…”

Sustaining excellence and relevance in PhD nursing education

“…Using the AACN position statement to frame the discussion, the two CANS-authored articles in the July/ August 2015 issue of Nursing Outlook (Henly et al, 2015a(Henly et al, , 2015b) call on nursing's academic leaders and the larger scholarly community to work together to create a preferred future for the profession. The authors sharpen the focus on some emerging areas of science for nurse educators to consider adding to programs of study to ensure that the discipline remains relevant in creating knowledge to improve health and health care.…”

Integrating emerging areas of nursing science into PhD programs

“…Key points from these initial discussions on the emerging and priority areas of science impacting nursing science and health care research are summarized later. CANS IFAC recommendations for PhD programs incorporating the emerging and priority areas are presented in Henly et al (2015).…”