A Hospital Resource for Nurses Navigating Doctoral Education and Beyond.

Suzanne Feetham Katherine Patterson Kelly Cindy D Colson Eileen P Engh Shaun Christopher Frame Nicholas A Giordano Simmy King Deborah Ojini Theresa Ryan Schultz Barbara Speller-Brown Heather Walsh

J Nurs Adm

Author Affiliations: Nursing Research Consultant (Dr Feetham), Nurse Scientist, and Associate Professor, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC (Dr Kelly), Nursing Research and Development Programs Manager (Dr Engh), Department Nursing Science, Professional Practice Quality, Director Healthcare Consulting CBRE Washington DC (Dr Frame): Chief Nursing Informatics and Education Officer (Dr King), Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatry Consult Liaison Service (Dr Ojini), Division of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Nursing Director (Dr Schultz), Sickle Cell Disease Lead Translation Research Advanced Practice Nurse and Director of the Sickle Cell Disease Transition Clinic, Associate Professor George Washington University (Dr Barbara Speller-Brown), and Simulation Program Manager (Dr Walsh), Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC; and Assistant Professor (Dr Giordano), Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Published: January 2025

Advancing nursing practice to improve care and system outcomes requires doctoral-prepared nurses to conduct programs of research and translate science to practice. The authors describe a Doctoral support group (DSG) at one hospital designed to support nurses considering and navigating doctoral education while continuing as hospital employees. Strategies from 18 years' experience are provided for others to develop and sustain a DSG as part of an environment to support and retain nurses with doctoral degrees.

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