A critical discussion regarding the scholarly development of the nursing profession - A call to action

Research Quality—Lessons from the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021

“…Nursing has long suffered from a lack of proper investment, including funding, and failure to influence the priorities of research funders. These are issues that need to be addressed urgently, particularly as there remain concerns about the availability of nurses in universities and health services at all levels, but particularly early career researchers, in the pipeline [ 5 , 6 ]. National strategies for nursing research have long been articulated [ 1 ], but little progress has been made in their implementation.…”

Is the nursing faculty keeping up or slowly drowning?

“…Certainly, we seem to have passed ‘nursing's watershed’ and ‘all time low’ (Breer, 2013, p. 6), and reaffirmed nursing's place in the University. While at the same time other concerns are looming, such as an inadequate pipeline of future faculty (Ryder et al, 2022; Watson et al, 2021), limited advancement of the profession, systemic underfunding of nursing research, limited strategic advancement of the nursing research agenda and widening gaps between service requirements and university goals (Ryder et al, 2022).…”