Students’ perspective: An eye on our future

Where are nurse-scientists? Academic nursing research at critical crossroads

“…Public health, by definition, is multidisciplinary with the mission and scope aligned with the discipline of nursing ( American Public Health Association [APHA] 2022 ). Supporting the argument of welcoming NNF into schools of nursing as full-time faculty ( Hayes et al, 2021 ; Lee et al, 2021 ), we explored if nurses are welcomed and hired as full-time faculty in other research-intensive academic departments, especially those aligned with nursing's mission. Since public health is interdisciplinary, we explored this by looking at the top 5-highest NIH ranked funded schools of public health.…”

“…However, given that an important argument supporting NNF in schools of nursing was inclusivity of others ( Lee et al, 2021 ; Villarruel and Fairman, 2021 ), we thought it would be informative to examine other disciplines inclusivity of employing nurse-scientists as full-time faculty, especially in highly NIH-funded SOPH, which are multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary in its research. We reviewed the websites of the five schools of public health listed in Table 2 .…”