The Doctor of Philosophy program in nursing is designed to prepare scholars and researchers capable of advancing nursing practice and education. Three focus areas, health promotion, human response, and healing, characterize the conceptual base of the program and define the program’s scope. These three focus areas provide the structure to develop knowledge that will extend the understanding of the promotion of physical, psychological, and social well-being. They also are applied within the context of prevention and the maintenance or restoration of health.

The program prepares nursing scholars to:

• Create conceptual systems that reflect synthesis, coherence and the extension of knowledge about health promotion, human response, and healing within nursing and related disciplines.
• Design, conduct, communicate and evaluate research that contributes to a body of knowledge in nursing science

• Test, generate and extend knowledge about nursing practice that includes health promotion, human response, and healing into clinical settings.

• Collaborate with others on the integration of conceptual, practical, and ethical knowledge of human health in the organization, implementation, and evaluation of health care practices and policies.

• Provide leadership to improve the health care environments of the world.

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For more information or an application package, please contact Denise Reed, via e-mail or write:

Denise Reed
Nursing PhD Program
University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing
301 University Boulevard
Galveston, TX 77555-1132
Phone: (409) 772-8206

djreed@utmb.edu