ABSTRACT
Faculty practice has been a value in both nursing education and nursing service. Recent changes in education provide the opportunity for practice to be rewarded in the university setting. Changes in health care delivery demand expert practitioners and leadership in advanced practice nursing. The history of education-practice integration is reviewed. A new role of the practitioner educator (reverse joint appointee) is presented. Benefits of the position to both education and practice are discussed.
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Nurse Administrators/organization & administration , Nursing Faculty Practice/organization & administration , Nursing Research/organization & administration , Nursing Service, Hospital/organization & administration , Schools, Nursing/organization & administration , Humans , Job Description , Models, NursingSubject(s)
Caregivers/psychology , Family/psychology , Nursing Care/psychology , Patient Participation , HumansABSTRACT
An urban school of nursing and a 631-bed acute care teaching facility, two independent organizations, created a faculty-practice program in 1990 modeled after one at Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Currently there are two full-time faculty joint appointees on 12-month contracts: an Associate Director for Nursing Research/Clinical Nurse Researcher (CNR) and an Associate Director for Nursing Administration. The benefits and challenges of the faculty-practice appointments are explored from three viewpoints: those of the (1) Chief Nurse Executive of the medical center, (2) the Dean of the School of Nursing, and (3) the Joint Appointee, Associate Director for Nursing Research. The joint appointee also describes the roles and functions inherent in the joint appointee role, for example, researcher, teacher, consultant, collaborator, and grant writer. Position descriptions for each joint appointment are included.
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Interprofessional Relations , Nursing Faculty Practice , Hospitals, Teaching , Humans , Nurse Administrators , Philadelphia , Role , Schools, NursingSubject(s)
Adaptation, Psychological , Chronic Disease/nursing , Models, Nursing , Aged , Chronic Disease/epidemiology , Chronic Disease/psychology , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , SymbolismABSTRACT
Speaking to an audience is a complex communication activity that involves many elements combining process and content skills. Mastery of these complex skills is a necessity for every professional nurse. Faculty in the school of nursing at La Salle University created the public speaking evaluation instrument (PSEI) to help students develop and refine skills that promote effective communication in public speaking. The tool guides the development of student presentations and provides them with immediate feedback on their speech.
