Identify your PhD focus area(i.e., population health, health care administration, leadership,education, or interdisciplinary).

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• Describe the phenomenon you have selected using concepts, conceptual relationships, frameworks, and/or graphic models derived from the literature. Be as specific as possible in naming the population and other aspects of this phenomenon that are relevant to your topic.

• Explain why you selected this phenomenon, citing your experience and the research literature you have explored and demonstrating that thetopic is worthy of doctoral-level study.

Based on your initial understanding of this phenomenon, explain how research related to it can provide positive contributions to nursing research, practice, education, and/or leadershi