Teaching the Leadership and Management Skills and Roel of Faculty Faulty can perform a crucial role in the taming and training the students to understand leadership and management in the nursing practices. The question of whether leadership can be taught has received much attention in literature. While many authors believe that it can be taught, … Read more

Teaching Leadership and Management Skills to Future Nurse Leaders The evolving landscapes of the healthcare system are continuedly expanding, is such condition it is observed that that is high demand of effective nursing leaders is observed. This fact also predicts that the future nurse leaders must possess strong leadership and managerial skills to work in … Read more

Doctoral Education Nursing Scholarship in North America For both the North American countries (Canada and the USA), the expanding body of knowledge reflects the values of the countries and more specifically, the nursing discipline’s strong focus on the health of individuals, their families, as well as communities. There is a commitment to promoting health as … Read more

Doctoral Nursing Education in Europe Academic education in nursing in Europe at the university level was first established in the UK in 1950s (Hamrin, 1997; McKenna and Cutcliffe, 2001). Today, academic nursing education is the norm in most of the member states of the EU, and much progress is ongoing. In Finland (Leino- Kilpi and … Read more

Future Directions in Knowledge Development The knowledge base to guide nursing practice and healthcare has expanded dramatically in the past two decades in a number of regions of the world. As a critical mass of doctorly prepared nurses has built major research programs focused on priority nursing and health problems in their countries, substantiated bodies … Read more

Content of Doctoral Education Unsteady foundations and Uncertain futures A doctoral program is a preparation in research. All are agreed on this. However, in a changing world there are perhaps grounds for reflecting on what this means. There is a sense in which this means training to be a researcher. In the past, the student … Read more

Implications for Doctoral Preparation in Nursing It will be clear from the previous section that there are a number of trends confronting nursing in the new millennium.  They are issues that are relevant to the profession as a whole. However, the matter of how we address these issues is of vital importance. The decisions made … Read more

Trends That Will Affect Doctoral Education Questions Begged About the Nature of Education What is good about doctoral education? What is bad about doctoral education? How will doctoral preparation evolve in the future? These questions are amenable to comparatively simple answers. Yet these are questions that have been posed before, certainly over some decades in … Read more

Substance of Doctoral Education In Nursing In addressing this, it is necessary to consider the context within which such education takes place and the wider emerging trends that may influence future directions. We have identified three issues: the content of doctoral programs; the context within which they develop; and nursing as the field of study … Read more

What Is Students Grading In Nursing Education The teacher’s assessment of students provides the basis for assigning a grade for the course. The grade is a symbol reflecting the achievement of students in that course. In addition to grading the course as a whole, grades are given for individual assignments, quizzes, tests, and other learning … Read more