Differences between the Professional Doctorate and the Academic/Research Doctorate.

Downs, Florence S.

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Differences between the Professional Doctorate and the Academic/Research Doctorate.

Downs, Florence S.

Journal of Professional Nursing, v5 n5 p261-65 Sep-Oct 1989

Columbia and New York University probably served as the breeding grounds for the debates about whether nursing is a practice discipline, a clinical science, or a basic science, as well as for arguments about how practice and research should be related and, ultimately, how the DNS differs from the PhD. (MLW)

Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Educational History, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Nursing, Nursing Education, Research, Surveys

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