海角社区

Sean Sibley, Ph.D.: My inspiration around nursing is seeing those moments where you might perceive someone as suffering, and there’s some intervention that brings a little bit of joy, hope or relief to people. And that’s what really spoke to me and kind of awoken this realization that we have a lot of power through our empathy.

Eva Quirion, Ph.D.: I had a provider one time tell me that, you’re not supposed to smile until Christmas. Like you’re supposed to come across, it’s like, you know, people need to take you seriously, and, you know. And she, she said jokingly, 鈥淒on’t smile until Christmas,鈥� and I can’t. I just can’t. I like to put students at ease. I want my students to be able to ask me any question, like there’s space in the education setting to ask everything because you don’t have that opportunity out in the world. 

Colleen Marzilli, Ph.D., DNP: Nursing has so many different avenues and so many different pathways, and it really does allow for people to reinvent themselves constantly within the same profession and allow for the strong professional nursing identity that we have, the value that nurses have as the most trusted profession. I think that’s what’s so important. And what’s so amazing about the nursing profession is this confidence and trust the public has in nursing, and that the way that nurses are able to help people. And for me as an individual, that’s what is most important is to be able to help people. And nursing does that.

Kelley Strout, Ph.D.: When I wanted to pursue my Ph.D., the only option was to leave the state I love. And I think there are a lot of mes out there who love this state and want to advance in nursing science, but either don’t want to leave or can’t leave, and it’s limiting to our profession. And I think because we haven’t had a Ph.D. program in the state, even at the point of care in hospitals and health care centers, they don’t realize the opportunity to elevate health care through doctorally prepared nurses with a scientific training.

Mary Tedesco-Schneck, Ph.D.: Well, I’m really excited because it will allow us to educate nurses to be in advanced practice in advance, you know, to be faculty, but also it will expand nursing research in this region. And that’s so important because nurses do research not only on like evidence based practice, but on workforce issues, you know, public health issues. There’s so much that nursing has to offer. And this will allow us to grow that component of our program.

Katherine Weatherford Darling, Ph.D.: I’m always emphasizing to my students what they already bring in terms of their lived experience and expertise, and how important it is to kind of use our research skills to, like, lift up those experiences and that prior knowledge that they already come to the table knowing their communities, knowing their patient populations, and really being experts in their field. And so I think really creating that sense of partnership and co-learning is a really critical part of being a Ph.D. student. Right? Of having that kind of that transformation where you’re coming from being a student to being a teacher and being a knowledge producer and being part of an academic community. And that really starts from day one thinking about your faculty, not as teachers, but as collaborators and coauthors.

Giovanna Guidoboni, Ph.D.: Our students here don’t only learn from the textbooks, but that are actually learning while solving problems that no one has ever saw before. And the importance of that is that when we learn here and we graduate our students and our faculty work with them, we are also solving problems that are very important for 海角社区 and then can be an example and solutions for the nation.

Kathryn Robinson, Ph.D.: I’m so excited for 海角社区 to be recognized at that level of doctoral research, nursing capacity, and for our community partners to start allowing us the opportunity to be at the table and have a seat at the table in a lot of these really important conversations, specifically around policy making. Doctoral nurses do policy, and I think that that is an awareness gap that a lot of people don’t know is how much influence nurses with doctoral degrees have, not only at the state, but at the national level, international level too. So I’m really excited for this area to finally start seeing some of that momentum.