I do it because I m interested and passionate. I enjoy the research. I m constantly thinking about my research. It gets more interesting the more I learn, and the complexity of genetics adds a lot of depth to it. More nurses might consider going back for a doctorate if they knew how rewarding it can be to combine clinical work with research, said Susan Janson, DNSc, ANP, RN, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing.
Questions come from patients.
What s wonderful is that you can conduct research on solutions and take that back to the patients. At the beginning of her career, Janson noticed how hard it was for patients to live with chronic lung disease. They told her that clinicians, physicians and nurses weren t offering treatment for chronic shortness of breath. After she went back to school for a doctorate, Janson designed and carried out a research study to reveal how patients with chronic lung disease were coping on their own. In other studies, she tested interventions.