MMC (Clayton), Gippsland and Peninsula campuses
Nurses wishing to undertake research and to investigate nursing and midwifery
practice problems from within the health care delivery environment are
encouraged to apply. Principal areas of research include nursing therapies and
practices; nursing information systems and nursing informatics; health
informatics; community health and primary health care; health promotion; rural
health practice and issues; issues of professionalism; nursing education
practices; client/patient perspectives of pain/ illness/nursing care;
ethical/moral issues; health service delivery models; legal issues, nursing
interventions; nursing informatics; and advanced nursing practice. All campuses
offer the research award.
Applicants
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy must have obtained either a bachelors
degree with honours I or IIA in a relevant field or a masters degree
which contains a significant research component in a relevant field.
The degree normally requires three years of full-time study or the part-time
equivalent.
Intending applicants should write to the head of the School of Nursing, or the
director of the Centre of Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing, enclosing a
curriculum vitae and a synopsis of the proposed research.