Nursing Education Research-How to Use It to Build Your Promotion and Tenure Case

摘要

Research tends to be the first criterion that comes to mind as a requirement for achieving promotion and tenure in academia. Traditionally, the kind of research necessary for promotion and tenure in many higher education institutions has been primary nursing research (e.g., nursing phenomena, nursing interventions, nursing administration). This can be particularly true of institutions classified as high or very high in research intensity according to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2007b).Educational research had previously been reserved for faculty who teach in schools of education; however, with growing internal and external demands for the demonstration of teaching efficacy, schools in the arts and sciences have become more engaged in studying the outcomes of pedagogies implemented in their respective disciplines. Nursing education, as a discipline, has been a leader in the study of educational strategies-this is evidenced by the proliferation of journals publishing nursing educational research over the past 2 decades.