USING DELPHI TO FORECAST NURSING FACULTY DEVELOPMENT.
Contributors: West Virginia University.
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Education, Higher.; Education, Administration.
Description: The purpose of this Delphi study was to forecast the desirability, feasibility, and impact of specific faculty development activities in accredited baccalaureate nursing programs in public, state and land-grant institutions. The data were collected utilizing two rounds of questionnaires completed by a panel of nursing program administrators randomly selected from the four regions of the United States as designated by the National League for Nursing. The questionnaires were constructed by the researcher following a review of the literature to determine needs, opportunities, trends, and rewards considered important to faculty development.

The panel rated 46 event statements on separate Likert scales for desirability and impact and provided an estimate of the time frame in which the events were expected to occur. The mean ratings for both desirability and impact were determined from the data and were utilized to establish levels of significance. Median time frames were also determined for each event. In addition, the panel projected the results if the events rated as significant were to occur and suggested strategies to promote their occurrence.

Of the 46 events, 24 were rated as being significantly desirable, 15 were rated as having significant impact, and 14 events were rated as having both significant desirability and significant impact. All 46 events either occur at the time of the study or would occur before the year 2000. Among the 14 significant events, all three parts of the triad of the faculty role were identified as being needed in nursing faculty development. The top ranked items related to research and publication, support for new faculty, and integration of nursing faculty into the university community and societal community.

Recommendations from the study addressed developmental needs associated with the triad of the faculty role. Suggestions for further studies regarding faculty development in nursing programs were offered. Two scenarios presenting the current status and future of faculty development in nursing programs were provided.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-09, Section: A, page: 2806.

Thesis (ED.D.)--WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, 1989.

School code: 0256.