Biography
Biography: Meryem Yavuz Van Giersbergen
Abstract
Quality health care is important issue for worldwide and nursing can and must play a major and global role in transforming the healthcare environment. Doctoral degree nurses are very much needed in the discipline to further develop and expand the science, as well as to prepare its future educators, scholars, leaders and policy makers. The first University School of Nursing opened in 1955 in Turkey. In 1968, the Master of Science in Nursing Program was initiated, followed by the Nursing Doctoral Education Program in 1972. In 2001 six Universities provided nursing doctoral education while in 2015 20 Universities provided nursing doctoral education. In Turkey, the doctoral education in nursing is carried out with a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD) via the Health Sciences Institutes. This presentation centers on the structure and model of doctoral education for nurses in Turkey. The presentation will describe in detail nursing doctoral education in Turkey, including program structure, admission process, course units, assessment strategies and dissertation procedure. Many countries in the world are systematically building various collaborative models of their own nursing doctoral education programs. Turkey would like to play an active role in creating collaborative nursing doctoral education programs together with other countries.