In addition, the campus offers many opportunities for multidisciplinary and collaborative research experience. Many multidisciplinary group seminars and conferences are offered on a daily basis. In addition to these research areas, faculty have other areas of expertise in which doctoral students may choose to study, including the history and philosophy of nursing science. In the Department of Community Health Systems, doctoral study is organized around both the graduate program areas of mental health, community, and administrative nursing as well as the current research of the faculty. This program also includes the psychological and behavioral aspects of occupational health.
Research can focus on infants, children, adolescents, adults, or the elderly.
This program also includes the psychological and behavioral aspects of occupational health. A specific page for the Occupational Health studies is available. In Nursing Administration, research focuses on administrative issues in both academic and service settings and may include regulation and governance, organizational analysis, program evaluation, organizational processes, and leadership, quality assurance, and in-service education research. Within the department, research areas such as social support and social networks, ethical questions and issues, and role development, transition, and supplementation cut across all programs. Many studies are cross-cultural or international in scope.