文摘
Slightly more than 32% of DNP students have postgraduation plans for academic careers, indicating that DNP graduates are an important component of nurse faculty candidate pool. Compared with students who planned to pursue nonacademic careers, DNP students who planned to have academic careers were more likely to have full-time and part-time faculty status. However, they did not show significant differences in other demographic and academic characteristics. Most students who planned to seek academic careers felt confident in carrying out many academic tasks, except for teaching informatics/technology courses. Students who planned to seek academic careers were more likely than students in the nonacademic group to be influenced by facilitators to faculty careers. On the other hand, they were less likely to be dissuaded by barriers to academic careers. These findings are also consistent for DNP students who were not a faculty member. DNP education has a positive, although small, impact on students' plans to pursue academic nursing careers.
