Doctoral Research
The doctoral program at VCU prepares scholars and researchers
in nursing to engage in knowledge development and transmission
in areas critical to the advancement of clinical nursing practice.
Within each of the four focus areas of inquiry - healing,
risk and resilience, and biobehavioral clinical - doctoral
students may choose to study these areas of interest: critical
illness, chronic illness,
and high-risk infants and families, and HIV/AIDS.
Interdisciplinary opportunities are available for doctoral
students in the following research areas:
- high risk infants and families
- human lactation and parent education
- life threatening illnesses in adults
- adaptation in chronic illnesses in adolescents and adults
- health promotion and risk behavior in adolescents
- the experience of despair and inner strength in women
- spirituality in chronic illness or devastating life events
- changes in health status and quality of life in adults with
chronic illnesses
For more information on School of Nursing research opportunities
in these focus area, go to www.nursing.vcu.edu/faculty_research_index.shtml.
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