“If you haven't got a PhD, you're not going to get a job”: The PhD as a hurdle to continuing academic employment in nursing

Jackson, Debra and Peters, Kath and Andrew, Sharon and Salamonson, Yenna and Halcomb, Elizabeth J. (2011) “If you haven't got a PhD, you're not going to get a job”: The PhD as a hurdle to continuing academic employment in nursing. Nurse Education Today, 31 (4). pp. 340-344. ISSN 1532-2793

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Abstract

This paper is drawn from a larger study that sought to identify and examine issues around the employment of sessional academic staff in baccalaureate nurse education. Twelve sessional teachers and 12 continuing academics participated in the interviews. Examination of the data revealed the PhD was perceived as a hurdle to continuing employment in nurse education in the university sector. In the current climate, sessional teachers continue to be an essential part of the nursing academic workforce and are necessary to meet the teaching and learning demands associated with implementing nursing curricula. Findings suggest a need for scrupulous processes in relation to the recruitment of sessional staff, and highlight the difficulties that sessional teachers may have in securing continuing academic employment. We provide recommendations to facilitate the appointment of appropriate individuals into sessional roles and highlight the need to mentor and support sessional teachers wishing to pursue a career as nurse academics. Questions are raised about how nursing can plan for future academic workforce needs in a context of an aging academic workforce, the demand for doctoral training for nurse academics, and widespread casualisation of the nursing academic workforce.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	Nurse education, Nursing faculty, Workforce, Mentoring, Doctoral studies
Faculty:	ARCHIVED Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education (until September 2018)
Depositing User:	Repository Admin
Date Deposited:	06 Jun 2013 14:22
Last Modified:	21 Aug 2019 16:05
URI:	http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/293506

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