Nursing and higher education

A comparison of the career aspirations of degree and P2000 diploma graduates from UK nursing programmes

“…In contrast, the diplomates felt they had already learnt the skills necessary to make a successful transition from student to staff nurse. Nevertheless, Altschul (1983), Kemp (1988) and Smith (1993) found that among the graduates they studied, holding a degree was perceived as an advantage.…”

“…Career path studies have found that most of the degree graduates expressed a desire to study further, particularly in the community‐based areas of psychiatric nursing, health visiting and midwifery, but to then return to being a staff nurse, with possible progression to ward sister level ( Altschul 1983; Howard & Brooking 1987; Bircumshaw & Chapman 1988; Kemp 1988; Bartlett et al . 1994 ).…”

Issues in the supervision of postgraduate research students in nursing

“…In a review of the work of the Departmait of Nursmg Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Altschul (1983) reported that m I96I the first two nurses obtamed PhD degrees m the university In 1972, Edmburgh was the first J university m the United Kmgdom to create a duur m nursmg Together, these two ev«its ccmshtute significant milestcmes m tfie evoluhc»i of nursmg resesudi Seven-point framework Approadung the subject from a difiFerent but a related perspechve. Hockey (1986) provided an important overview of nursing researdi m the Uruted Kmgdom In parhcular, she identified seven basic requirements m a firamework for the development of nursing research Her seven pomts are mdividual academic cunosity, research educahon, research achvity, appropnate research dimate, research finance, disseminahon, and research utibzahon Of all the pomts mentioned, an evergreen cunosity probably does more than anythmg else to keep research abve and thnvmg bttle appears to have been wntten about the supervision of postgraduate research degree students m nursmg Clark (1992), when wntmg about a strategy fi}r nursmg research, makes the pomt that academic departments of nursmg tend to be small and that this limits the amount of help that can be given Moreover, she makes the addihonal pomt that many staff m these departments have bttle expenence of research, with some havmg undertaken only one limited piece of supervised researdi…”

The ‘Manchester scheme’: a study of the Diploma in Community Nursing, the first pre‐registration nursing programme in a British university

“…Faced with the expectations of the profession, and of society at large, that they would move quickly into education, research and management (MacGuire and Sparks 1970; MacGuire 1971; Auld 1987; Sinclair 1987), these students appear to have confounded such expectations by remaining in clinical practice for a number of years (Marsh 1976; Scott‐Wright et al. 1979; Altschul 1983; Andrew 1984; Sinclair 1984; Bircumshaw 1988; Fraser and Titherington 1989; Fraser and Titherington 1991), often in community settings (Bircumshaw and Chapman 1988; Kemp 1988b).…”