DNurs Doctor of Nursing

University of West London

Postgraduate

In Brent

£ 2,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Brent

  • Duration

    5 Years

Course summary
The philosophy underpinning this course takes a new perspective on how learning relates to professional practice. It is designed to facilitate and enable you as a professional to consider the questions of importance in your setting, and build capacity in you as a professional and researcher to enable you to answer these pressing questions in your workplace.
The course is designed to support you to reflect at an advanced level on your profession, your practice and new, original ways in which you can contribute to the professional knowledge base in your area. The course is layered to enable you to engage with understanding traditional research methods and new pragmatic methods of research which can be used to conduct research in the professional setting.
It is somewhat different from many other doctoral programmes out there. The learning in this course is designed to be directly applicable to your workplace. The uniqueness of this course is in the systematic approach it takes to enabling you as a student to answer the questions you need answered for your professional practice, then supporting you to develop your research and writing skills, to enable you to produce an original contribution of knowledge to your professional area.
Other options available for DNurs Doctor of Nursing
Part time - September 2017, Brentford site

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Location

Start date

Brent (London)
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Paragon House, Boston Manor Road, TW8 9GA

Start date

On request

About this course

Entry requirements
Applicants shall normally have a Master's degree or equivalent in the relevant field of study. In addition applicants are, where appropriate, normally required to have at least two years relevant professional experiences; endorsed by (where appropriate and relevant) membership of a professional body or institute. Applicants are required to have appropriate relevant professional experience and to be engaged in professional practice. Applicants are required to be researching or developing practice in an area which falls within the University's current research...

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Course detail
There are a number of benefits of doctoral level study for professionals and practitioners. It generates a research-based approach to solving problems. It builds capacity in a systematic way of collecting evidence, and encourages an independent and open mind for analysis and interpretation of evidence.
The traditional PhD has a strong theoretical emphasis but a narrow focus in the topic area of the thesis. Such doctorates can be very useful for those seeking to undertake a career as an academic researcher. However, for professionals and practitioners in the workplace, the traditional doctorate can seem a daunting prospect. In fact, very low completion rates have been reported for part-time mature students.

The Professional doctorate is designed to provide a student with an advanced level of research capability and knowledge that is directly tied to the professional setting and applicable in the workplace.

There are a number of stages you will move through to support your doctoral work to completion. The course supports you to develop your ideas, create a research proposal outlining your ideas, to create a more detailed research plan of what and when you will do things, building your capacity towards then conducting a doctoral research project.

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