Boyer's multidimensional nature of scholarship: a new framework for schools of nursing

This article compares Boyer's concept of four dimensions of scholarship with nursing's traditional definition of scholarship. A case is made that Boyer's concept is congruent with nursing's present and future direction of scholarship. An example is given of how one school of nursing has used Boyer's concept as a framework to develop policies and practices to promote and reward the scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching.