RN-to-BSN Students' Intent to Become Faculty: A Multisite Study.

BACKGROUND: A nursing faculty shortage means fewer nurses, exacerbating nursing shortages. PURPOSE: The purpose was to determine RN-to-BSN students' intent for a future nurse faculty role. A secondary purpose was to evaluate differences between students who indicated high and low intent to pursue a faculty role. METHODS: The study was multisite and multimethod using 5 instruments. RESULTS: Of 137 RN-to-BSN students who completed the online survey, 20% indicated they intended to pursue a future faculty role. Students with high intent to pursue a faculty role reported higher self-efficacy and interests in faculty activities. Only 6 of the high-intent students had been encouraged to pursue a future faculty role. CONCLUSIONS: RN-to-BSN students may be receptive to encouragement to consider a nursing faculty role in the future.

Growing Your Own: Will Your Associate Degree Nursing Student Consider a Future Faculty Role?

AIM: The purpose of the study was to determine the intent of associate degree in nursing (ADN) students to pursue a future nursing faculty role. BACKGROUND: Nursing faculty shortages negatively affect the capacity to educate new nurses. METHOD: A prospective correlational research design was used to conduct a national survey of ADN students regarding their intent for a future nursing faculty role using constructs of social cognitive career theory. RESULTS: Twenty-nine percent of participants intended to pursue a future faculty role. The statistically significant predictors of future intent were semesters completed (OR = 2.4), interest in the activities of a faculty role (OR = 2.3), encouragement from faculty (OR = 2.0), outcome expectations-advantages (OR = 1.7), and outcome expectations-disadvantages (OR = 0.7). CONCLUSION: Encouraging ADN students toward graduate education and a future faculty role and informing them of all aspects of the role, including advantages and disadvantages, may inspire ADN students toward such a role.