Mitigating Barriers to Doctoral Education for Nurses.

Aim: This article reports preliminary outcomes of the Guiding Initiative for Doctoral Education, which promotes success in doctoral study.

Background: Nurses face challenges as they move intentionally, effectively, and expediently toward earning the doctorate. Selecting the doctoral education best suited to individual career goals is essential for success.

Flying Lessons for Clinicians: Developing System 2 Practice.

There is a long history of adopting lessons learned from aviation to improve health care practice. Two of the major practices that have successfully transferred include using a checklist and simulation. Training and simulation technology is currently underdeveloped for nurses and health care providers entering critical care transport.

Becoming Parent and Nurse: High-Fidelity Simulation in Teaching Ambulatory Central Line Infection Prevention to Parents of Children with Cancer.

Background: Ambulatory central-line infections in children with cancer are life-threatening. Infections are two to three times more frequent in outpatients than inpatients, for whom evidence-based bundles have decreased morbidity. Most cancer care now takes place at home, where parents perform many of the same tasks as nurses.

The Doctor of Nursing Practice: From Start-Up to Impact.

Aim: This article reflects on the progress of the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degree and its place in health care.

Background: The DNP originated over 10 years ago, long enough for a comprehensive evaluation.

Method: Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation Theory is used to trace the history of the DNP.

The Preparation-Practice Gap: An Integrative Literature Review.

Background: The purpose of this integrative literature review was to evaluate and synthesize the evidence regarding the existence, extent, and significance of a preparation-practice gap-namely, the deficits in knowledge and skills that novice nurses may demonstrate on entry into the clinical setting and the identified best practices to narrow this gap.

Method: An integrative literature review was performed.

Results: A final set of 50 articles were included in the review.

Scholarly work products of the doctor of nursing practice: one approach to evaluating scholarship, rigour, impact and quality.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this investigation was to evaluate, monitor and manage the quality of projects conducted and work produced as evidence of scholarship upon completion of Doctor of Nursing Practice education.

Background: The Doctor of Nursing Practice is a relatively new degree which prepares nurses for high impact careers in diverse practice settings around the globe. Considerable variation characterises curricula across schools preparing Doctors of Nursing Practice.