title: Educating future nursing scientists: Recommendations for integrating omics content in PhD programs.
abstract: Preparing the next generation of nursing scientists to conduct high-impact, competitive, sustainable, innovative, and interdisciplinary programs of research requires that the curricula for PhD programs keep pace with emerging areas of knowledge and health care/biomedical science. A field of inquiry that holds great potential to influence our understanding of the underlying biology and mechanisms of health and disease is omics. For the purpose of this article, omics refers to genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenomics, exposomics, microbiomics, and metabolomics. Traditionally, most PhD programs in schools of nursing do not incorporate this content into their core curricula. As part of the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science's Idea Festival for Nursing Science Education, a work group charged with addressing omics preparation for the next generation of nursing scientists was convened. The purpose of this article is to describe key findings and recommendations from the work group that unanimously and enthusiastically support the incorporation of omics content into the curricula of PhD programs in nursing. The work group also calls to action faculty in schools of nursing to develop strategies to enable students needing immersion in omics science and methods to execute their research goals.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Electronic address: yconley@pitt.edu.
authors.forename: Yvette P
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Conley
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heitkemper
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McCarthy
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
authors.forename: Cindy M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Corwin
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
authors.forename: Sandra
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authors.lastname: Daack-Hirsch
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Susan G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Dorsey
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Katherine E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Gregory
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
authors.forename: Maureen W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Groer
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Susan J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Henly
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Landers
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
authors.forename: Debra E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Lyon
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Yale University, Orange, CT.
authors.forename: Jacquelyn Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Voss
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D014481:United States
keywords: Education; Genomics; Omics; PhD