Title: G2 - Passionate Commitment: Building An Academic Nursing Career

Disciplines: Professional Issues (PI), Advanced Practice (AP)

Learning Objectives:
  1. Identify a trajectory and options for educational preparation required for a career in nursing academia.
  2. Apply an understanding of academic roles, faculty expectations, and institutional missions to personal professional goals.
  3. Analyze nurse faculty data and projections in relationship to professional goals, development of an academic career, and the Future of Nursing report.
Submission Description:
Does the desire to shape the next generation of nurses excite you? This session will orient you to the world of academic nursing considering qualifications needed, academic roles, faculty expectations related to institutional missions, and opportunities available. An overview of the worsening nursing faculty crisis and the challenges of the IOM Future of Nursing report will provide the context important to your role in nursing’s social mandate to educate ongoing generations of professional nurses.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012: 3:15 PM-4:15 PM
Potomac D (Gaylord National Harbor)
Moderator:
Betsy B. Kennedy, MSN, RN
Presenting Author:
Nancy K. Lowe, CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN