MODEL FOR NURSE FACULTY RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY.
Contributors: University of Florida.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Generation, dissemination, and utilization of research is central to advancing the knowledge base for the discipline of nursing. The purposes of this exploratory study were to discover how a sample of nationally known nurse researchers produce and reproduce knowledge for the discipline, identify individual and environmental variables related to successful research outcomes, and generate a theoretical model for research productivity.

An organizational systems model and a naturalistic inquiry paradigm guided the research design and the development of the theoretical model for faculty research productivity. Multiple data collection methods and sources were used. The primary source of data was through on-site, field interviews with established nurse researchers at seven universities that have been identified as leading academic institutions in the United States with graduate nursing programs. Pre-interview data were collected by questionnaires to obtain a profile of the nurse conducted with a purposive sample of 21 nationally known nurse researchers who met the definitional criteria for established nurse researcher.

Interviews with established nurse researchers were taped, transcribed, and submitted to ethnographic analysis for domains and themes. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze biographical and institutional data.

From the interviews, the following significant individual variables were identified for the model of research productivity: character traits (interest, commitment and motivation, perseverance, creativity, independence, ethics); knowledge (knowledge base, opportunities for learning, awareness of when consulation and collaboration was appropriate); and skills (mental abilities, interpersonal skills, organizational skills, articulation skills). The most significant environmental variables of the model were as follows: academic and disciplinary expectations for scholarly productivity; administrative support for nurse faculty's development and involvement in programs of research through workload allocations, provision of resources for research, and faculty development; tangible resources to structure and foster environments that capitalize on resources available in academic nursing programs; and collegial support.

Recommendations from this study addressed further application and testing of the model of research productivity within academic nursing programs and extension of the research to include clinical settings of nurse researchers.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-08, Section: B, page: 2263.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 1987.

School code: 0070.