Hiring Intentions of Directors of Nursing Programs Related to DNP- and PhD-Prepared Faculty and Roles of Faculty

To what extent has doctoral (PhD) education supported academic nurse educators in their teaching roles: an integrative review

“…Increased societal demands for the responsibility and accountability of services provided are particularly relevant to the professional disciplines of medicine, law, nursing, and teaching [ 32 – 35 ]. As a result, the responsibility for educating skilled professional practitioners has been entrusted to educational institutions [ 36 ].…”

Dissemination of scholarship across eight cohorts of doctor of nursing practice graduates

“…While EBQI publications outpaced Integrative Reviews in this DNP student sample over the past decade, the proportion of DNP graduates who publish could be increased with greater emphasis in the curriculum regarding publishable-ready manuscripts. A study byOermann, Lynn, and Agger (2016) established that DNPs met the expectations of a faculty member, yet an area that was lacking was scholarship. Such mentoring could include providing information that may compel DNP students to continue to build their programme of scholarship.…”

PhD without the Ph?

“…Nursing's distinctive historical trajectory has brought us to the brink of a current crisis in which there are too few doctorally prepared nurses internationally to fill university faculty vacancies, let alone the emerging opportunities for nursing scholarship in various research, leadership and health policy positions toward which the wisdom of our discipline would be ideally suited (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, ; Oermann, Lynn, & Agger, ). While we have witnessed a global proliferation of degree‐granting at the doctoral level, a significant proportion of that now occurs in the form of professional doctorates and at academic institutions not yet well suited to the support of a robust research and knowledge generation training environment (Institute of Medicine, ; Kim, Park, Park, Khan, & Ketefian, ; McKenna, Keeney, Kim, & Park, ; Smeltzer et al., ).…”