Ph.D. Program

At this point in your career, you may be looking for a new challenge. You might want to:

• stretch your intellect and your analytical and research skills
• learn more about and work with diverse individuals, families, and groups from various walks of life
• discover contributing factors of an illness
• study the unique strengths individuals possess or strategies they use to keep themselves in optimal health
• assume a leadership role in an inpatient or community-based health care setting
• teach

A Community of Scholars: Barry's Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (Ph.D.) Program can prepare you to assume these leadership and scholarship roles. At Barry, you will meet faculty and administration who believe the University is a community of scholars with a central aim of searching for and disseminating knowledge through study, reflection, inquiry, and creative activities.

Unique Positioning for a Current Approach: At Barry, you will take core courses in an interdisciplinary environment, completing contextual, methodological, and substantive coursework. Your course work will revolve around the focal area of multicultural health that is critical to the future of nursing science and practice.

Barry University is uniquely positioned to provide you with a framework for inquiry that is responsive to global trends and contemporary challenges in nursing and health care. Barry's mission as a Dominican university is grounded in a perspective that seeks justice, eschews prejudice, and embraces community service. In addition, the multicultural and multifaceted nature of South Florida's population allows you to explore and experience many of the current challenges and positive aspects of contemporary health care.

Objectives

The mission of the University creates a distinctive environment for a Ph.D. in Nursing program. It serves as a foundation that declares its purpose as the preparation of scholars, like you, who will discover or extend knowledge advancing the science and practice of nursing and who will contribute to the knowledge base of other disciplines. The objectives of the program are to prepare nursing scholars who:

• have multiple perspectives of knowing and acknowledge multidisciplinary contributions to the creation of knowledge;
• will generate, test, and extend knowledge through relevant research and theory development, and will disseminate their findings to the broader scientific community;
• will contribute to solutions that advance health care in a culturally diverse global society through the formulation and implementation of strategies that serve the public interest;
• will be informed by philosophical, social, cultural, and political issues; and
• will provide leadership in nursing and positively influence society at large.

We invite you to join us in this worthy endeavor. You will work closely with faculty in the division of nursing and other units across campus during your coursework as well as during your dissertation research. This supportive academic community has even resulted in opportunities for Barry students to present and publish their research and scholarship in competitive professional forums.