Nursing faculty shortage in Canada : A scoping review of contributing factors

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BACKGROUND: Strong nursing faculty is paramount to promote disciplinary leadership and to prepare future nurses for practice. Our understanding of the factors associated with or predictive of nurse faculty retention and/or turnover is lacking.

PURPOSE: The aim of this review is to identify and synthesize the existing literature on factors contributing to nurse faculty shortage in Canada and implications on nursing practice.

METHODS: A scoping review based on the Arskey and O'Malley's five stage framework for scoping reviews was undertaken. Utilizing the PRISMA protocol, a comprehensive and structured literature search was conducted in five databases of studies published in English.

FINDINGS: Limited through search inclusion and relevance of research, nine studies out of 220 papers met the criteria for this review and were thematically analyzed. Identified themes were supply versus demand; employment conditions; organizational support; and personal factors.

DISCUSSION: Impending retirement of faculty, unsupportive leadership, and stressful work environments were frequently reported as significant contributing factors to the faculty shortage.

CONCLUSION: This scoping review provides insights into how Canada's schools of nursing could engage in grounded efforts to lessen nursing faculty shortage, both nationally and globally. We identified a gap in the literature that indicates that foundational work is needed to create context-specific solutions. The limited studies published in Canada suggest that this is a critical area for future research and funding.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:69

Enthalten in:

Nursing outlook - 69(2021), 4 vom: 08. Juli, Seite 574-588

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Boamah, Sheila A [VerfasserIn]
Callen, Miranda [VerfasserIn]
Cruz, Edward [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Canada
Educator
Journal Article
Nurse faculty
Nursing academic workforce
Nursing faculty shortage
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Scoping review
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 20.09.2021

Date Revised 20.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.outlook.2021.01.018

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM322640091