Nursing Doctoral Faculty Perceptions of Factors That Affect Their Continued Scholarship

A Profile of U.S. Nursing Faculty in Research‐ and Practice‐Focused Doctoral Education

“…Commensurate with the emphasis on clinical leadership in DNP education, faculty teaching only in DNP programs are more likely to engage in clinical practice. These findings corroborate the findings that Smeltzer et al () reported from the study that informed the development of the survey used in the current study. A high degree of emotion associated with work‐related stress was expressed by participants in the DNP faculty focus group.…”

“…In the United States, growth in the number of practice‐focused doctoral programs, hereafter referred to as doctor of nursing practice (DNP) programs, has increased more dramatically than that of research‐focused programs, hereafter referred to as doctor of philosophy (PhD) programs (AACN, 2014b). Some evidence suggests that this trend is resulting in increased demands on the aging and shrinking senior faculty, taxing their ability to mentor doctoral students and conduct their own research (Smeltzer et al., ). Participants in a national study of doctoral nursing faculty expressed concern that there would be insufficient faculty qualified to teach in PhD programs in the next 5 years (Dreher, Smith Glasgow, & Cornelius, ).…”

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

“…Those faculty who were engaged as advisors did not receive effort for this advising role and may have been more vested than others in encouraging their advisees to publish or engaging with them in the dissemination. Smeltzer et al (2014) describe this as the "invisible work" of faculty.…”

Sustainability, Succession, and the Senior Faculty

“…Junior faculty often are protected from service and teaching responsibilities. Thus, it tends to be the senior faculty who ensure that their departments, colleges, and universities, as well as professional organizations, function (Smeltzer et al, 2014). They do this with the anticipation that they will be able to off-load these responsibilities when the junior faculty attain a degree of professional maturity.…”