Background: The number of doctoral programmes in nursing has multiplied rapidly throughout the world. This has led to widespread concern about nursing doctoral education, specifically with regard to the quality of curricula and faculty, as well as to the availability of appropriate institutional resources. In South Africa, no study of these issues has been conducted at a national level.Objective: To explore and describe the quality of nursing doctoral education in South Africa from the perspectives of deans, faculty, doctoral graduates and students.Method: A cross-sectional survey design was used. All deans (N = 15; n = 12), faculty (N = 50; n = 26), doctoral graduates (N = 43; n = 26) and students (N = 106; n = 63) at South African nursing schools that offer a nursing doctoral programme (N = 16; n = 15) were invited to participate. Data were collected by means of structured email-mediated Quality of Nursing Doctoral Education surveys.Results: Overall, the graduate participants scored their programme quality most positively of all the groups and faculty scored it most negatively. All of the groups rated the quality of their doctoral programmes as good, but certain problems related to the quality of resources, students and faculty were identified.Conclusion: These evaluations, by the people directly involved in the programmes, demonstrated significant differences amongst the groups and thus provide valuable baseline data for building strategies to improve the quality of doctoral nursing education in South Africa.
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机译：背景：在世界范围内，护理学博士学位课程的数量迅速增加。这引起了人们对护理博士教育的广泛关注，特别是在课程和师资的质量以及适当机构资源的可获得性方面。在南非，尚未在全国范围内对这些问题进行研究。目的：从院长，教职员工，博士研究生和学生的角度探讨和描述南非护理博士教育的质量。使用了分区调查设计。南非护理学校的所有院长（N = 15; n = 12），教师（N = 50; n = 26），博士毕业生（N = 43; n = 26）和学生（N = 106; n = 63）提供护理博士学位课程（N = 16; n = 15）的受邀参加。通过结构化的电子邮件介导的护理博士教育质量调查收集数据。结果：总体而言，研究生参与者在所有组中对计划质量的评价最高，而教师对项目质量的评价则最差。所有小组都将其博士课程的质量评为良好，但发现了与资源，学生和教职员工的质量有关的某些问题。结论：这些直接参与该计划的人员的评估表明，各小组之间存在显着差异从而为建立改善南非博士护理教育质量的策略提供有价值的基线数据。
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