Successful Doctoral Training in Nursing and Health Sciences: A Guide for Supervisors, Students and Advisors

ISBN-13: 9783030879488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 154 str.

Debra Jackson; Patricia M. Davidson; Kim Usher

Opis

This textbook is a practical, user-friendly and essential guide for doctoral students, their supervisors and advisors and administrators of doctoral programs in nursing and health sciences. Nurses and health scientists have a relatively young tradition of doctoral training, and this means students often come to doctoral studies without a clear understanding of what is required to be successful at this level of education. Supporting students to successful completion of doctoral studies involves a complex fusion of skills, and yet researchers and academics receive little specialist training in this crucial area of teaching and learning. Strong pedagogies around doctoral supervision and writing are essential because in addition to the scientific, research and educative skills required, it is important to be able to establish and maintain enabling professional relationships within which both parties can thrive, and that can withstand the years of critique needed for doctoral work. The authors offer supervisors, advisors, students and administrators practical advice on helping students thrive, and steering them through various challenges that can arise during doctoral candidature. With a focus on nursing and health sciences, the authors take a global approach, recognising the international focus of doctoral training in nursing and health sciences. The authors of this book are experienced supervisors and advisors to doctoral students and together, have well over 100 successful doctoral completions and more than 1000 publications. They draw on a series of interviews and case studies to share their knowledge and experience and provide insights and guidance to inspire and support student progression and ensure students get the most out of their doctoral studies.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. What is doctoral training? 

This chapter will cover the elements and characteristics of a doctoral degree, the roles of supervisor and student, pedagogies of doctoral education, global issues in doctoral education, models of doctoral training, understanding doctoral convention in nursing and health sciences, special considerations for nursing and health sciences.

Chapter 2. Approaches to supervision

This chapter will cover pedagogies of supervision, individual and group supervision models, supervision within communities of practice, personal supervision style, hands on vs hands off supervision, innovative techniques for supervision, strategies to enhance reflexivity for students and supervisors.  

Chapter 3. Forming and developing the supervision team

This chapter will cover selecting the supervision panel, identifying complementary skills, getting the skill mix right, understanding responsibilities, getting the best out of the team, developing the team, issues of intellectual property and authorship. 

Chapter 4. Establishing and maintaining student/supervisory relationships

This chapter will cover supervisor/student agreements, ensuring shared expectations, effective communication, recognising and dealing with conflict, managing avoidance, recognising and managing splitting behaviours, having difficult conversations, honouring and nurturing the supervisory/student relationship.

Chapter 5. Managing critique and feedback

This chapter will cover the importance of quality feedback and examine the elements that constitute quality feedback, approaches to feedback, the nature of feedback, supervisor and student factors influencing how feedback is delivered and received, and how to ensure feedback is optimally enabling not disabling.

Chapter 6. When students get stuck

This chapter will cover issues around failure to progress, a very common challenge and provide tips to help supervisors and students to recognise camouflaging of failure to progress, and how to enable and support students to re-engage and move forward.

Chapter 7. Training, focus on issues for Indigenous students, international students, and some of the global issues influencing doctoral training

Chapter 8. Developing doctoral writing

In this chapter, we will address pedagogies of doctoral writing, tackle the complexities of doctoral writing, present and identify strategies to support students to develop as writers, cover writing for publication, and submitting parts of the thesis as papers.

Chapter 9. Preparing for examination

In this chapter, we will cover selecting examiners, crafting traditional theses, hybrid models, collections of publications, thesis mapping. We will discuss preparing for oral examination as well as the examination of the written document. 

Chapter 10. Life after the examination,

This chapter includes the management of the consequences of the Viva and what to expect from life in the post-doctoral stage.

O autorze

Debra Jackson AO, RN, PhD, SFHEA, FACN is Professor of Nursing at the University of Sydney and University of Technology Sydney. She holds a number of international roles including Professor of Nursing at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (UK), Visiting Professor at Florence Nightingale Faculty, Kings College London (UK), Bournemouth University (UK), and Auckland University of Technology (NZ).  In 2020 Professor Jackson was named Australia’s leading nurse researcher. In 2019 Professor Jackson was awarded Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medical education in the field of nursing practice and research as an academic and author. She is a committed and experienced mentor and supervisor of developing researchers, scholars and leaders. She has supervised more than 50 students to completion and has won a Vice-Chancellors award for excellence in doctoral supervision and training (2007). Professor Jackson has published widely, with over 400 publications including journal articles, books and book chapters. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. 

Kim Usher AM, RN, PhD, FACMHN, FACN, is Professor of Nursing in the School of Health, Research Fellow Oxford-Brookes, Oxford, UK, Research Fellow, Ngangk Yira Research Centre for Aboriginal Health & Social Equity, and, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University, Australia. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Nursing and Nursing and Health Sciences. To date, she has over 300 peer-reviewed journal publications and numerous book chapters. Her h-index is 25 (orchid), 41 (google scholar) with an i10-index of 120.  Professor Usher was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia in 2017 in recognition of sustained contribution to nursing and midwifery education and research. She was recognised for teaching by the award of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2008) and a James Cook University Vice Chancellor’s Award for Higher Degree Research Supervision in 2009. Professor Usher has successfully supervised over 30 PhD students to completion, and continues to supervise a large number of higher degree research students. Her students have received numerous awards and most publish numerous outcomes from their research during their period of candidature.

Patricia M. Davidson  RN, PhD FAAN Professor Patricia M. Davidson joined the University of Wollongong as Vice-Chancellor in May 2021. Prior to her current role, Professor Davidson was dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore in the United States. In 2021 she was the recipient of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Distinguished Leader Award. This honour celebrates her exceptional contributions to the advancement of global health worldwide.

As a global leader in nursing, health care, and advocacy, Professor Davidson’s work focuses on person-centred care delivery and the improvement of cardiovascular health outcomes for women and vulnerable populations. She has extensively studied chronic conditions, transitional care, palliative care, and the translation of innovative, acceptable, and sustainable health initiatives across the world.

Professor Davidson serves as counsel general of the International Council on Women’s Health Issues, and was a past board member of CUGH and secretary general of the Secretariat of the World Health Organizations Collaborating Centres for Nursing and Midwifery. She also serves on the Board of Health Care Services for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States.