Is the nursing faculty keeping up or slowly drowning?

50 years since the UK's first nursing professor

“…Many of those named are professors. But Thompson also has contributed to criticisms levied at the nursing professoriate in terms of weakness of leadership as well as inadequacies of research performance, even questioning whether the nursing faculty is slowly drowning under the business model now driving policy in universities (Timmins, Thompson, & Watson, 2022). This, they argue, is not conducive to nursing as a practice discipline and that traditional benchmarking for appointments and promotions disadvantages nurse academics.…”

Photovoice: An active learning tool with community nursing students

“…Since the competency requirements of nurses involve skills such as ethical decision‐making, moral reasoning, communication skills and relational skills (Timmins et al., 2022). Therefore, nurse educators must enable learning environments to be spaces that foster future nurses' values, beliefs and feelings (Chen et al., 2019; Jin & Cheng, 2021; Siles & Solano 2017; Ward & Butler, 2019), critical thinking (Spagnol et al., 2019) and provide a greater understanding of the stigma and marginalization of the people they will care for (Demirtas et al., 2021; Habibzadeh et al., 2021).…”