Doctorate education and producing knowledge in nursing

Abstract

361Nowadays, knowledge and innovation are viewed as central factors to sustainable economic growth and development. Close cooperation between university, society and the system of production is therefore indispensable.Scientific and technological advances and innovation depend on policies and strategies that involve the academic community, scientific societies, professionals and social actors. In this process, strictu sense postgraduate courses, especially doctorates, have contributed to developments in science and technology and innovations, deemed to be the motors of social and economic change.As with other areas of knowledge, doctorate programs in Nursing have contributed significantly to advances in the sciences. In nursing, studies resulting from doctoral theses have ensures leadership and quality in providing health care services. Over the history of doctorate education in Nursing, which began in the 1930s, socio-political and economic changes have taken place that impacted directly on the quality and quantity of scientific output in the area, on consolidating the knowledge produced and on nursing practice. Currently, there are new demands, especially national and international mobilization of the area to deal with the challenges faced in the period of doctorate education, market demands regarding work and the quality of doctoral theses, regarding applying knowledge produced to practice. Thus, with the aim of supporting reflection and disseminating information on current demand, this edition of the Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem has been specially designed. It is a dossier of five articles by researchers who have been invited to analyze doctorate education in Nursing and the production of knowledge stemming from doctoral theses, together with a further 10 articles, the results of theses, revealing the quality of scientific output.Shaké Ketefian and Richard Redman present a critical analysis of doctorate education in the United States, based on educational and social trends and changes takin place in Nursing postgraduate courses in that country, especially concerning the length of time taken to achieve the qualification and the need to increase the number of scientists in nursing and nurses with clinical experience to operate using advanced practices, resolving the main health problems present in society. The article contains many recommendations that will certainly have implications for international nursing, given the historical influence of American nursing. using the different disciplines delivered, internationalization strategies and doctorate theses defended in Brazilian postgraduate programs. The results of the study reveal advances in the number of disciplines offered over the threeyear-period analyzed and in the internationalization initiatives adopted by the programs. As for production of knowledge,

Pleasure-suffering duality in stricto sensu graduate programs in nursing: between bridges and walls

“…Stricto sensu Graduate Programs contribute significantly to the development of science, technology, and innovation (1) . They transform the lives of students and constituting an interface between the production of knowledge and the collections generated by the development agencies (1)(2) .…”

“…Stricto sensu Graduate Programs contribute significantly to the development of science, technology, and innovation (1) . They transform the lives of students and constituting an interface between the production of knowledge and the collections generated by the development agencies (1)(2) . In the Brazilian Graduate Program, one can see that these requirements are a reflection of changes that have occurred in the last decades, regarding the established metrics and the lack of time for the master's and doctoral courses (3) .…”

Produção acerca de gênero nos doutorados em enfermagem no brasil

“…Among these, the gender category is a useful tool to analyze the social relations of power between people. [3][4] The term "gender" was first applied by American feminists for the purpose of demonstrating social character and differences between the sexes. It is considered that understanding the gender relation in history is respecting the sexual differences produced by cultures and societies in the relations between men and women.…”