Doctorally prepared nurse scientists play an essential role in creatingdisciplinary nursing knowledge, developing innovative andpatient-centred interventions, and translating nursing knowledgeinto practice to improve the standards of nursing care (Broome &Fairman, 2018; Younas & Porr, 2019). Concerns have been raisedthat existing experienced nurse scientists are at the age of retirement,and there is global shortage of nurses in doctoral programmes(Buerhaus, Skinner, Auerbach, & Staiger, 2017; McSweeney,Weglicki, & García, 2018). There have been calls to action to promotethe entry of nurses into doctoral programmes (Broome &Fairman, 2018; McSweeney et al., 2018). However, nurses notedbarriers such as time, money, work–life balance, family commitmentsand lack of motivation to pursue doctoral education (Cavanagh &Alshehry, 2016; Gorczyca, 2013; Squires, Kovner, Faridaben, &Chyun, 2014). Amongst these barriers, one of the common barriers islimited knowledge about the application process, limited confidencein preparing a high-quality graduate application and fear of rejection(Gorczyca, 2013). We aim to highlight six factors that may negativelyaffect nurses' confidence to prepare excellent doctoral applicationsand lead to rejection.
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