'We should help students build confidence to appraise research'
I think trying to make nurses PhD-lite researchers has the many of the same problems and opportunities as trying to make them mini-software-engineers. We see a person we care about with a problem and it strikes us that a lot of people have the same problem and compassion meets curiosity and we wonder if there’s not a way to solve that problem once and for all. We think we see a way to do it but rational humility reminds us that it’s easy to fool ourselves and get things wrong. Mentioning our idea to the powers that be is met with cold water and probably a short list of reasons why our...