Pathways to the PhD in Nursing: An Analysis of Similarities and Differences

Partnership for development: A peer mentorship model for PhD students

“…The PODs model responded to calls for new and innovative mentoring programs for PhD students in Schools of Nursing (Cohen, 2011; Fang et al, 2016; Nehls et al, 2016). We believe our model is innovative as we strategically created groups with diverse membership and included student-nominated faculty members.…”

“…Formal and informal mentoring by faculty and peers socialize doctoral (PhD) students at a School of Nursing into the academic, research-focused environment and their role as they become future nurse scientists (Fang, Bednash, & Arietti, 2016; Goodfellow, 2014; Nehls, Barber, & Rice, 2016). These mentoring relationships are critical in creating future nursing scholars who serve as stewards of the discipline, helping them to smoothly transition from a PhD student role to a faculty role, allowing them to be successful as nurse scientists following graduation, and achieve national standards set forth to advance the nursing profession (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2010; Gill & Burnard, 2008; Institute of Medicine, 2011; Sawatzky & Enns, 2009).…”

“…Students in an unsupportive community often feel socially isolated from peers and family, struggle with changing personal relationships, and often report having a poor relationship with one’s primary mentor due to lack of communication, disparate personalities, or by having an unresponsive mentor (Cohen, 2011; Nehls et al, 2016; Pancheri et al, 2013). Additionally, those students who lack a support system or a good relationship with any faculty mentor during the duration of their PhD degree program are at increased risk for program withdrawal, greater time to degree completion, and negative psychosocial outcomes (e.g., anxiety, depression, stress) (Cohen, 2011; Nehls et al, 2016; Pancheri et al, 2013). Therefore, identifying methods to create and sustain a community that is both personally and professionally supportive during challenging times and celebratory during the good times is essential to ensuring the success of students while obtaining their PhD.…”

The future of pediatric nursing science

“…The need for more pediatric nurse scientists must be examined within the context of the shortage of PhDprepared faculty (Smeltzer et al, 2015). Nursing faculty shortage has direct effects on availability of mentors and on the quality of mentorship (Nehls, Barber, & Rice, 2016). Availability and quality of mentoring in a student's area of research, perhaps especially in the population of interest, is critical to student success (Nehls et al, 2016).…”

Effect of Teaching Program on Nurses' Performance Regarding Drugs that Affect Blood Coagulation in Coronary Care Unit

“…We are used person Correlation to Appear the Association between scores .All analyses were performed with the IBM SPSS 20.0 software. (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39). As regarding to sex the majority of studied nurses (76.7%) were females.…”