Description: Lecture, four hours. Designed for Ph.D. students. Exploration of phenomena of interest to nurse scholars from past to present and future in relation to proposed domains of nursing (person, environment, health, and nursing). Investigation of state of science in nursing, with special focus on health service, biological, vulnerable populations, and biobehavioral nursing research. Integration and synthesis of current and historical scholarly findings of particular phenomena in literature to identify meaningful gaps in knowledge and directions for future research. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0