Faculty Shortages Faculty Retention and Returning Creative Solutions Faculty Retention Issues Retaining good faculty members is the next challenge facing university nursing administrators once successful recruitment has occurred. With increased competition for qualified faculty, excellent faculty members are in a ‘recruitable’ position, especially after some academic experience in their first appointment. To retain excellent faculty, … Read more

The Faculty Shortages of Faculty Issues Faculty Recruitment Issues Throughout history, Canadian university nursing administrators have experienced difficulty in securing faculty qualified to teach in university programs. This situation first occurred during the establishment of baccalaureate programs within universities and is now encountered by administrators attempting to staff developing doctoral programs with qualified faculty (Wood … Read more

Faculty Shortages in Doctoral Nursing Programs The most important resource for doctoral nursing education programs is the faculty (Wood and Ross-Kerr, 2003), if the stated purpose of doctoral education for preparing scholars and scientists who will develop disciplinary knowledge is to be fulfilled. Recruitment and retention of qualified faculty members creates a greater challenge for … Read more

Case Studies Doctoral Education in Nursing Opportunities and Dynamics The expectation for careers in academia and/or research is born out in one of the cases. The potential for conducting research and generating new knowledge, supervising the research work of others, and serving in leadership positions that contribute to senior management agendas is a realistic aspiration … Read more

Changing Perspectives on Doctoral Education The overall approach to doctoral education has come under increasing scrutiny in the past five years, particularly but not exclusively in the USA. Often, employers of doctoral graduates are critical of the lack of various skills in the graduates visà -vis needs of the contemporary workplace. Some of the criticism … Read more

Doctoral Education in Nursing Views and Career Pathways Recent decades have been characterized by continuous, transformational changes on a global level, a phenomenon particularly evident in healthcare. The changes in the delivery of healthcare services have affected both the practice and the education of all health professionals, especially for nurses. The changing needs of contemporary … Read more

Future Faculty In Nursing for Doctoral Programs This topic discusses the themes and outcomes of a national conversation in the USA focused on the state and future of doctoral education. It outlines the interrelationship of recent national calls for improvements in US doctoral education, describes the role of ‘Re -envisioning the PhD Project’1 in synthesizing … Read more

Emotional Intelligence and Transformational Leadership Emerging doctoral curricula weave difficult concepts of a new leadership paradigm based on self-awareness. The concept of emotional intelligence has grown in popularity over the past two decades, generating interest both at a social and a professional level. Concurrent developments in nursing relate to the recognition of the impact of … Read more

Doctoral Education for Transformational Leadership in a Global Context The pace of change in the world is unprecedented, calling for nurse leaders who are responsive to new workplace environments, which require new strategies that question prevailing assumptions. Doctoral education in nursing must be reframed to prepare leaders with new skills to transform the organizational culture … Read more

Professional Factors Influencing Knowledge Development Several professional factors have strengthened the development of knowledge to guide nursing practice in the USA and Canada. These include building strong multidisciplinary networks for developing knowledge and developing a tradition for postdoctoral study with senior nurses and multidisciplinary researchers. One factor has limited knowledge development in the discipline; this … Read more