Confronting the Social Mandate for Nursing Scholarship – One School of Nursing’s Journey
Journal: Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière
Year: 2014

The move to advance the qualification of nurses has necessitated the expansion of baccalaureate degree level nursing education to colleges and other less research-intensive post-secondary institutions in Canada and beyond. Shifts in the post-secondary institutional contexts of nursing education necessitate a re-thinking of the mandate and purpose of scholarship in nursing and how it can be sustained. Over a span of forty years, Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing has evolved from a comm