FACULTY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING AND THEIR VALUE AS PERCEIVED BY NURSING EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS AND NURSING FACULTY.
Contributors: University of Pittsburgh.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Education, Higher.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This study examined current faculty development activities and ascertained their value as perceived by nursing education administrators and faculty. Forty-one administrators and 112 faculty from baccalaureate and/or higher degree nursing programs accredited by the National League for Nursing and located in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania participated in the study.

Questionnaires designed to obtain perceptions of faculty development activities and their value in terms of faculty professional development, institutional support, biographical data and institutional characteristics were utilized. Twenty-four categories of faculty development activities were listed and the data were analyzed by frequencies, percentages, and Spearman's Rank Order Correlation Coefficient.

Over three-fourths of the administrators reported that faculty attended programs related to increasing subject mastery, understanding computers in the classroom, increasing clinical skills and curriculum development, whereas three-fourths of the faculty reported only programs related to increasing clinical skills.

Two practices having the highest value rankings by both administrators and faculty were increasing clinical skills and knowledge, and increasing subject mastery.

Administrator and faculty perceptions concerning institutional support differed noticeably with the institutional practices of orientation for new faculty, financial support for meetings, and adjustments in assignments to accommodate faculty development needs.

Further study is needed to: increase the data base using a larger sample; determine the impact of faculty clinical practice on professional development; determine available opportunities in institutions for faculty development; and record the impact of faculty development activities on the quality of nursing education.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-06, Section: A, page: 2054.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 1986.

School code: 0178.