Nursing faculty who continue to work in the clinical setting

[AlonnaA]

Hello All!

I have been researching the impact of nursing faculty who continue to practice in the clinical setting. My area of review is how this affects the student and faculty. I am aware of the faculty practice model, but it does not cover my area of concern.

If any one knows of research regarding this issue, please post. OR if you would be so kind as to post your experiences/opinions to this subject, I would greatly apperciate it.

Alonna

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

I have served as adjunct faculty while working full time in the hospital. Impact on who - nursing staff or student or the nurse doing both roles?

[llg, PhD, RN]

Are you interested only in direct-patient care practice? Or are you interested in other kinds of practice. I work in Staff Development and teach a theory course in an RN-BSN completion program. I think my continued work in a hospital enriches my understanding and teaching of theory (and research - as I have taught that in the past, too) and helps me make that "academic" content more relevant to my students. I come to it from the perspective of "how is this stuff used in a practice setting" as opposed to "how do people working in universities engage in theory and research activities?"

[nurse2033, MSN, RN]

I think it is imperative that nursing faculty continue to work part time at the bedside. As soon as you stop practicing you become more and more outdated. The changes in our profession are coming fast and furious and two weeks off seems to take a day to catch up.

[AlonnaA]

I am looking into how continued bedside practice, impacts the students and the instructor.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

That instructor had better be at least active Prn if teaching. One of mine was not - she was scared ****-less on the floor during clinical, and hid as much as possible. This burned the floor nurses to the point where as students we did not feel welcome based on her poor prior performance at the clinical site.

[JBudd, MSN]

I'm adjunct faculty, but primarily bedside nurse. Most of our faculty are full time, and literally have no time to also be bedside; but they are doing clinicals, not as if they never have patient contact. Nearly half our clinical instructors are adjunct, and staff nurses.

I use a lot of anecdotes from things I see and do each week, students have said they appreciate the "real world" aspect of whatever the lecture is about.