Succeeding in your Doctorate in Nursing and Midwifery: A Practical Guide

This guide to succeeding in your doctorate for nurses and midwives is both inspiring and practical.The authors draw on personal experience of supervising nurses and midwives in their doctoral studies as well as on the insights of past and present students.They examine each aspect of, and step on, the journey of a doctorate in nursing or midwifery.They offer advice and support at each key point in the process, from registering for a doctorate through to completion and career planning beyond.Throughout, the book emphasises the life-changing potential of doctoral work. The book begins by setting doctoral study in nursing and midwifery within the context of doctorates in other disciplines, providing a brief history of the traditional PhD as well as setting out the emergence of professional and clinical doctorates.It addresses arguments around the place of doctorates in the professions of nursing and midwifery, in health care services and within the context of the recent history of nurse an