Doctor of nursing practice:

reflections on doctoral education in nursing

Authors

  • Cibele Leite Siqueira Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Faculdade de Enfermagem. Campinas, SP- Brasil; Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais -PUC Minas, Campus Poços de Caldas, Departamento de Enfermagem. Poços de Caldas, MG - Brasil. in memoriam https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0999-6943
  • Gisele Hespanhol Dorigan Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Faculdade de Enfermagem. Campinas, SP- Brasil; Centro Universitário da Fundação Hermínio Ometto - FHO/Uniararas, Enfermagem. Araras, SP -Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7610-3637
  • Maria Giovana Borges Saidel Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Faculdade de Enfermagem. Campinas, SP - Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3259-1760
  • Marcia Raquel Panunto Dias Cunha Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Faculdade de Enfermagem. Campinas, SP - Brasil; Colégio Técnico - COTUCA, Departamento de Enfermagem. Campinas, SP - Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7895-4910
  • Ana Paula de Brito Rodrigues Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Faculdade de EnfermagemCampinas, SP - Brasil; UNICAMP, Colégio Técnico - COTUCA, Departamento de Enfermagem. Campinas, SP - Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4831-9718
  • Dalila Bertanha Uhlmann Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Faculdade de Enfermagem. Campinas, SP - Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4357-6045

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5935/1415-2762.20190048

Keywords:

Nursing, Education, Nursing, Education, Nursing, Graduate

Abstract

The Doctor of Nursing Practice is a proposal for doctoral training of nurses inserted in the job market. The program is a reality of the international scenario, since in the national literature publications are scarce and the program has not yet been implemented. The objective was to reflect on the Doctor of Nursing Practice, exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the program. This is a reflective study based on publications indexed
in the following electronic databases: Scielo, BDENF, SCOPUS, MEDLINE and Web of Science. A combined search was performed using the controlled keywords nursing and advanced practice nursing and the uncontrolled descriptor doctor of nursing practice.
The reflections that emerged are the aspects related to the historical context and to the characteristics of the program, the strengths and weaknesses of this proposal and its insertion in the international scenario. This study presents an overview on the subject, so as to support the reflection and discussion about a potential doctoral training in the national scenario.

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Published

2019-04-15

Issue

Vol. 23 (2019)

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Reflection

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Siqueira CL, Dorigan GH, Saidel MGB, Cunha MRPD, Rodrigues AP de B, Uhlmann DB. Doctor of nursing practice:: reflections on doctoral education in nursing. REME Rev Min Enferm. [Internet]. 2019 Apr. 15 [cited 2026 Jul. 24];23. Available from: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/reme/article/view/49820

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