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Using Learning Outcome Measures to assess Doctoral Nursing Education
Published on: June 21, 2010
Disciplinary boundary maintenance in nursing education
Abstract:
This paper reports the results of two small-scale surveys examining the extent to which nursing education is reflecting patterns of insularity from other disciplines. One survey examined employment of non-nurse faculty and mechanisms for delivering non-nursing content in 16 baccalaureate and higher degree nursing programs; the other examined the disciplinary origins of required readings in 44 nursing courses. Non-nurse faculty were employed in half of the schools surveyed; however, non-nursing content was delivered primarily by nurses with advanced preparation in another discipline. There was heavy, but not total reliance on nursing authorship and journals in the courses surveyed. A pattern of relatively high insularity was inferred from reported and anticipated decreases in non-nurse faculty, the rarity of joint appointments, heavy reliance on nurses to deliver non-nursing content and use of high proportions of nursing literature.
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