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Nursing is a demanding profession that calls for nurses to devote time, energy, advocacy, and compassion to improving clients' lives while providing safe, efficient care. Nurses make personal sacrifices to meet their clients' needs, which do not come without costs to their well-being. An increased migration of novice nurses out of the profession and the need to increase the volume of the nursing workforce by an average of 8% annually to address the projected nursing shortage presents a compelling need for immediate action. Reimagining the concept of academic-service partnerships to provide exposure to opportunities that can equip and empower novice nurses as they emerge into professional practice cannot be underestimated. Implementing approaches to assess, support, and nurture the health and well-being of nurses and health care organizations is foundational to retention.
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Mão de Obra em Saúde , Enfermagem , HumanosRESUMO
Faculty workload is an ever-present issue in nursing education, but little is known about how workload is managed across institutions. Even less is known about faculty workload in the supervision of research and practice for graduate nursing students. The purpose of this study was to describe workload assignments for graduate nursing faculty supervising both research and advanced clinical nursing students. Using the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's list of schools, we sent 617 e-mails with links to an electronic survey to administrators of colleges of nursing. One hundred sixty (26%) administrators responded. Forty schools reported having a doctor of philosophy program, and 31 administrators answered the question about workload for dissertations, with 20 (65%) giving workload credit. Of the 36 respondents with a doctor of nursing practice (DNP) program, 22 (61%) gave credit for DNP project supervision. Great variability exists among schools of nursing in the United States for the amount of workload given for supervision of graduate student research and practice.