title: Components of the doctoral curriculum that build success in the clinical nurse researcher role.
abstract: Increasing numbers of hospitals and medical centers are creatively allocating positions for clinical nurse researchers. Since this type of position offers an outstanding opportunity to develop and test nursing theory, as well as to conduct and apply nursing research, it is important that doctoral programs provide students with the skills required to implement a research role within the context of a hospital organization. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how doctoral programs in nursing can develop the foundation graduates need to implement the clinical nurse researcher role, not necessarily by revising the curriculum, but by adding occasional single seminars, guiding students to specific learning experiences, and deliberately emphasizing the links between course content and role applications.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore.
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Dennis
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D003479:Curriculum; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D003657:Decision Making; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D012380:Role