HISTORICAL TRENDS IN THE ROLE EXPECTATIONS OF FACULTY IN COLLEGIATE PROGRAMS OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING, 1909-1970.
Contributors: State University of New York at Buffalo.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Higher.
Description: The purpose of this study was to pose and explore four interrelated questions which addressed the role expectations for faculty in collegiate programs of professional nursing during the relevant time span. This project was an historical analysis derived from primary and secondary sources. It focused on the nursing faculties of three schools: Teachers College; Columbia University; Yale University and New York University. The major components of the role expectations of educators within academe were assumed to be teaching, research and service, both to the profession and the college community.

Alvin Gouldner's concept of two latent role manifestations, the cosmopolitans and the locals, was used as the basis for analyzing the data. The research demonstrated a clear demarcation of many of the nurse educators studied in terms of Gouldner's concept.

The faculty at Teacher's College, Columbia University were primary "cosmopolitans." Service to the nursing profession was the primary role expectation. Research endeavors, especially as performed through publishing, were also deemed quite important.

At Yale University, the nursing faculty were primarily "locals." The teaching role dominated, while service to the clinical agencies and the department itself were emphasized. The dual classroom-clinical teaching role and team teaching methodology as practiced by contemporary nurse educators was developed at Yale. Most faculty held dual faculty-clinical appointments.

Meanwhile, the nurse educators at New York University were also "locals" in that the classroom teaching role was the priority one. However, this changed significantly during the late 1950s as Martha Rogers attempted to upgrade the program. Then, the educators were encouraged to pursue doctoral studies and to fulfill all of the major role requirements of academe, teaching--both classroom and clinical, research and service to the profession and the institution, so that nursing would become more collegiate.

A major conclusion of the study is that three of the most influential programs in the history of collegiate nursing education had very different role expectations for their faculties. These differences may have subsequently led to the role conflicts experienced by faculty in other later established nursing programs as they attempted to incorporate the practices perceived to be the most productive from each of the three programs.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-06, Section: B, page: 2125.

Thesis (PH.D.)--STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 1988.

School code: 0656.