Envisioning a More Expansive Future for Multidisciplinary Nursing Scholarship and Education

Date: 04/12/2021
Source: https://www.nursingoutlook.org/article/S0029-6554(21)00076-2/fulltext
Author(s): Wendy Bostwick, Julienne Rutherford, Crystal Patil, Robert Ploutz-Snyder, Joanne Spetz, Rob Stephenson, and Olga Yakusheva

 

There are indeed many pressing questions and issues facing the discipline of Nursing including significant numbers of faculty retirements, concerns about the rigor of nursing PhD programs, declines in PhD enrollments, and the persistent lack of diversity across many domains among nursing faculty. However, according to this piece, chief among current pressing questions is the unmitigated spread of non-nursing faculty (“NNF”) into the ranks of tenured faculty at schools and colleges of Nursing. We are faculty within schools/colleges of Nursing with training in Anthropology, Biostatistics, Demography, Economics, Epidemiology, and Public Health. A number of us also serve in administrative and leadership positions.