Future directions in knowledge development and doctoral education in nursing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The knowledge base to guide nursing practice and healthcare has expanded dramatically in the past two decades in a number of regions of the world. As a critical mass of doctorally prepared nurses has built major research programmes focused on priority nursing and health problems in their countries, substantiated bodies of knowledge are evolving that enhance the quality of life for multiple populations and improve the healthcare provided to the public. This expansion of knowledge has been facilitated in a number of countries by nurse scientists’ access to growing resources for conducting research. For example, Canadian nurse scholars are now highly successful competitors for federal research monies within most of the government’s funding agencies for health and cancer research. In the Canadian health services research arena, there are targeted federal monies for nursing studies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.019 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.016 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".