Mentoring students engaging in scholarly projects and dissertations in doctoral nursing programs

•Faculty provided a mean of 516 and 180 total hours mentoring each PhD and DNP student on their scholarly work, respectively.•Forty percent of faculty received no workload credit for chairing student doctoral committees.•Only 20-25% of faculty reported receiving formal training for the mentoring rol...

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Published in:Nursing outlook Vol. 67; no. 6; pp. 776 - 788
Main Authors: Anderson, Kelley M., McLaughlin, Maureen Kirkpatrick, Crowell, Nancy A., Fall-Dickson, Jane M., White, Krista A., Heitzler, Ella T., Kesten, Karen S., Yearwood, Edilma L.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.11.2019
Subjects:
Academic Dissertations as Topic
Adult
Biomedical Research
DNP
Doctoral programs
Education, Nursing, Graduate - organization & administration
Faculty, Nursing - psychology
Female
Humans
Male
Mentoring
Mentoring - organization & administration
Mentors - psychology
Nursing faculty
PhD
Students, Nursing - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States
Young Adult
United States
Mentoring
Doctoral programs
PhD
Nursing faculty
DNP
ISSN:0029-6554, 1528-3968, 1528-3968
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Summary:•Faculty provided a mean of 516 and 180 total hours mentoring each PhD and DNP student on their scholarly work, respectively.•Forty percent of faculty received no workload credit for chairing student doctoral committees.•Only 20-25% of faculty reported receiving formal training for the mentoring role.•Faculty retirement trends, increasing number of doctoral nursing students, and the duration of the BSN-DNP program are projected to increase mentoring demands.•Guidelines for the quality of DNP projects and the quantity of students mentored by individual faculty should be established. Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs in the US have grown exponentially, outnumbering Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Nursing programs. Faculty are mentoring increasing numbers of students on DNP projects or PhD dissertations. This descriptive study explored faculty characteristics and examined support, engagement, and outcomes of American Association of Colleges of Nursing member nursing faculty mentoring student DNP projects or PhD dissertations. A researcher-developed survey tool was emailed to 550 Deans and Program Directors of AACN doctoral programs for distribution to their doctoral faculty. Survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. 177 DNP and 53 PhD (N=230) program surveys were completed. Faculty described challenges in the mentoring role including: time constraints, workload allocation, resources, faculty role preparation, student readiness, and variability in student outcomes. Additional dialogue and consensus is required to promote mentoring of students in nursing doctoral programs to ensure rigor of scholarly outcomes.
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ISSN:0029-6554
1528-3968
1528-3968
DOI:10.1016/j.outlook.2019.06.021