Nursing education is constructed on the premise that preparation for clinical practice must be simultaneously rigorous, integrative, and reflective of the real complexity of healthcare delivery. Unlike fields where foundational knowledge can be mastered in relative isolation before being applied, nursing requires students to develop their understanding of science, ethics, communication,...

There is a quiet crisis unfolding inside the world of online doctoral nursing education, and it rarely gets discussed in the places where it most needs to be heard. Students who have committed years of effort and significant financial resources to pursuing doctoral degrees in nursing and health sciences are reaching the most demanding stages of their programs and discovering that the...

There is a version of the doctoral nursing student that lives mostly in the imagination of people who have never been one. In this imagined version, the student is a full-time scholar, moving through a carefully sequenced program at a measured pace, with ample time for deep reading, reflective writing, and sustained intellectual development. Their days are organized around the life of the mind....