TY - JOUR
T1 - Educating future nursing scientists
T2 - Recommendations for integrating omics content in PhD programs
AU - Conley, Yvette P.
AU - Heitkemper, Margaret
AU - McCarthy, Donna
AU - Anderson, Cindy M.
AU - Corwin, Elizabeth J.
AU - Daack-Hirsch, Sandra
AU - Dorsey, Susan G.
AU - Gregory, Katherine E.
AU - Groer, Maureen W.
AU - Henly, Susan J.
AU - Landers, Timothy
AU - Lyon, Debra E.
AU - Taylor, Jacquelyn Y.
AU - Voss, Joachim
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Work group discussions also identified the changing applicant pool to bachelor of science in nursing, advanced practice, and PhD programs, including students with prior degrees in science, technology, engineering, or math enrolling in second-degree nursing programs. With increasing emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math at all levels of education ( Committee on Highly Successful Schools or Programs for K-12 Education, 2011; Gonzalez & Kuenzi, 2012 ), high school students have exposure to omics ( National Human Genome Research Institute, 2006 ), especially in advanced placement courses ( College Board, 2013 ). Genomics competencies have been established for all levels of practicing nurses ( Consensus Panel on Genetic/Genomic Nursing Competencies, 2008; Greco et al., 2012 ), further adding to the omics knowledge base for many incoming PhD students. Although omics content may be unfamiliar to many faculty teaching in PhD programs, this is increasingly not the case for incoming PhD students. In many schools of nursing with PhD programs, it is indeed the students in the program who are driving the momentum to incorporate omics content into their education and training. To take advantage of these assets will mean that changes in PhD curricula are needed. This stance is supported by both the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Idea Festival Advisory Committee ( Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, 2014 ) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2010) .
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Education
KW - Genomics
KW - Omics
KW - PhD
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U2 - 10.1016/j.outlook.2015.06.006
DO - 10.1016/j.outlook.2015.06.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 26123776
AN - SCOPUS:84942989975
SN - 0029-6554
VL - 63
SP - 417
EP - 427
JO - Nursing Outlook
JF - Nursing Outlook
IS - 4
ER -