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Title Defining Scholarship

Authors Whitlatch, Joy A.; Hall, Virginia L.

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Defining Scholarship

for Today’s

Nurse Educator

Joy Whitlatch, MSN, EdD, RN

Assistant Professor

Virginia Hall, DNP, MSN Ed, RN, CNEAssociate Professor

Chamberlain College of Nursing


Disclosures

• Absence of Conflict of

Interest Statement

As planner and presenter of

this educational activity, I (Joyce

Whitlatch) have no bias or conflict

of interest.

• Off-label product usage

I attest that I will not discuss

off-label usage of products.

• Commercial support

There is no sponsorship (e.g.,

commercial support) for this activity.

Authors:Joy Whitlatch, MSN, EdD, RNAssistant Professor

Virginia Hall, DNP, MSN Ed, RN, CNEAssociate Professor

Expected Outcomes:

• Increases awareness, interpretation

and discussion of: What qualifies

as a scholarly activity versus

what qualifies as scholarship

• Facilitate recognition of faculty work


• To define the four

standards of scholarship

using the Boyer Model

• To suggest scholarly

activities that fit within

each standard of scholarship

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Purpose


Population of Interest

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• Discussions with nursing colleagues reveal a need

to define scholarship and scholarly work

• Nursing educators are unfamiliar with how to prepare for

promotion, tenure, merit reviews and/or the Certified

Nurse Educator Examination


Expected Outcomes

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• Increases awareness, interpretation

and discussion of: What qualifies

as a scholarly activity versus

what qualifies as scholarship

• Facilitate recognition of

faculty work


Background

Current academic systems recognize and reward faculty

scholarship in basic research and resident teaching.

AACN defines scholarship in nursing as activities that

systematically advance the teaching, research and

practice of nursing through rigorous inquiry and must be:

• Significant

• Creative

• Documented

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• Replicated

• Peer-reviewed


Background (continued)

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• Nurse educators have suggested the need for a model

to help navigate the scholarship path

• A gap exists between need for scholarship and

scholarship productivity by nurse educators


Scholarship

• Discovery

• Teaching

• Application

• Integration

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Scholarship Model

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Discovery

• Traditional definition of scholarship

• Discovering new information/models/theories

• Philosophical inquiry, analysis, research (empirical

and historical)

• Interdisciplinary, collaborative

• Tests existing knowledge

• Theory Development

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Teaching

• Participate in innovative teaching and evaluation methods

• Employ best practices to develop skills and

disseminate knowledge

• Involvement in Innovations that demonstrate the expertise

of the faculty member

• Informal or formal teaching

• Includes teaching, advising, mentoring others

• Inquiry that produces knowledge to facilitate learning

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Application

• Searching new knowledge

to solve real world problems

• Serve the interests of the

larger community

• Inquiry generated through

practice in service to

the profession

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Integration

• Integration of knowledge from different sources

and/or disciplines

• Combines findings from different disciplines,

connecting ideas

• Identify trends viewing knowledge from new lens

• Participate in interdisciplinary work through discovery,

teaching, or practice

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Implications for Nurse Educators

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• Nurse educators will be guided in

activities that meet criteria for increase

in rank and promotion

• By engaging in scholarship activities,

nurse educators will support the

values of a profession committed

to both social relevance and

scientific advancement


Implications for Nurse Educators

(continued)

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• Nurse educators will participate in

individual career planning as guided

by knowledge of recognized

scholarly activities

• Nurse educators will advance the

art and science of nursing education

through rigorous inquiry, peer review

and dissemination of scholarly work


Questions?

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References

American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2014).

Leading initiatives: Defining scholarship for the

discipline of nursing. Washington, DC: Author.

Boyer, E.L. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities

of the professoriate. Princeton, NJ: The Carnegie

Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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