Accommodating Introverted Nursing Faculty in the Work Environment

Abstract

Due to a nursing faculty shortage, many are employing strategies to recruit and retain nursing faculty. Work environments that are accommodating to the diversities of the targeted workforce increase work performance, comfortability, and job satisfaction. More people are extroverted and typically nursing faculty work environments are extroverted-oriented. Designing a work environment that is not only inclusive of extroverted nursing faculty but also introverted nursing faculty is one strategy to retain faculty. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of introversion and extroversion, discuss the typical nursing faculty work environment and the challenges it presents to introverted nursing faculty, and present strategies for creating work environments in nursing education where introverts can perform at their maximum potential.