In this episode, Ian had the great pleasure of interviewing Dr. Patrick Lyden, MD, of University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in the division of Neurology, where he asks Dr. Lyden some fundamental questions about the NIHSS instrument. Enjoy!

In this episode, Ian provides some musings on the problem of research and COVID-19 and what things might look like had we had larger swaths of nurse researchers able to participate in the larger conversation of public health throughout the pandemic.

In this episode, Ian details a recently published study in JICCN discussing the willingness of ICU nurses at the bedside to provide care to COVID-19 patients in the first wave of the pandemic, in Syndney, Australia. This was a prospective cross-sectional, single-center observational study designed to evaluate potential predictors of nurses' willingness, and concluded that communication from management was an important consideration. More importantly, however, Ian describes how this question of how to stop the loss of bedside nurses due to burnout and fear of illness from the pandemic and maintain the integrity of the workforce is crucial to the current discussion, since nurses, in many ways, are health care.

In this episode, Ian addresses a quesionner's concerns over his spending 01:21:00 on the podcast bolstering the perspective of his debate opponents' views on one argument related to restricting DNP-prepared scholars in the conduct of academic nursinng research. It is about respect and understanding others' perspectives, to enhance our own and to improve and increase cross-communication. Enjoy.

In this episode, Ian steel man's one compelling argument against the DNP-prepared clinical investigator. Namely, the fact that DNPs are intended to be prepared as broad-based clinical and practice-change experts, which does not afford for the siloing which must occur for PhD-prepared scholars to be effectives scientist-researchers in their content areas of expertise. This was recorded for the sake of those listeners who may have felt over the last few episodes that Ian may not fully understand some of the more nuanced and important reasons to suppress this notion - albeit just one of the different arguments against it. He concludes by talking about why he feels these should not take away from the DNP-prepared scholars opportunities to participate in the research conversation, independently. Thanks for listening.

As a response to a listener's question, Ian addresses in this episode the core differences, as he sees them, between what is efficacy research and what is effectiveness research and tries to gives a few examples of them both. A fairly large topic in and of itself, Ian felt this was worthy of its own podcast episode. Look out for the next episode, which will be released shortly and will feature the next full-length research review. Happy New Year!

In this final episode in a saga on the hypothetical demarcation problem in academic nursing research between DNP- and PhD-trained clinical investigators, Ian describes the importance of individual professionals' values and self-identification with practitioner-scholar or research scientist and how there are larger considerations at play, here, than merely the programmatic-level factors of one's doctoral study. Ian discusses the shortage of tenured research faculty in clinical nursing research in the United States and how a new cadre of properly trained DNP-prepared research scholars designed to augment and facilitate dissemination of the work of their nurse PhD colleagues should be fostered rather than suppressed, and discusses some new relevant data indicating that a large proportion of nursing-specific funds doesn't even go to nurse scientists. Email comments and questions to: [email protected].

In this third AMA episode, Ian answers the following three questions: 1.) Isn't the DNP a "clinical doctorate?;" 2.) Ought we just do away with DNPs focusing on research altogether in favor of becoming direct-entry clinical doctors?; and 3.) What is the difference between "basic research methodology" and "outcomes evaluation methodology" re: PhD v. DNP, respectively?

In this episode, Ian continues his discussion of the DNP as compared with the PhD in terms, specifically, related to the conduct of original academic and clinical research. The paper reviewed, today, was published in the Journal of Professional Nursing in 2020, by Dr. Krystal Canady, DNP, and is entitled: "Practical and philosophical considerations in choosing the DNP or PhD in nursing."