Chapter 22: The Growth of Graduate Education in Nursing in Canada - Nurselytic

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The primary purpose of doctoral education is to prepare scholars and scientists who will develop knowledge for their discipline.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The Canadian programs are remarkably similar in their goals, and all provide a major emphasis on research training, using, at least to some extent, the apprenticeship model.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: The number of doctoral nursing programs in Canada has grown from the six operating in 1998 to 19 programs in 2018.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: The Canadian Nurses Association Committee on Nursing Education made four recommendations at its 32nd Biennial Convention in 1962: (1) doctoral level education should be expanded, (2) school directors should be prepared at the master's level, (3) teachers of nursing should be prepared at the baccalaureate level, and (4) programs should be developed at the master's and doctoral levels.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: The majority of funding for the early graduate nursing programs came from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.