School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Faculty of Nursing, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada.
Nurs Outlook. 2021 Jul-Aug;69(4):574-588. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2021.01.018. Epub 2021 Mar 8.
Strong nursing faculty is paramount to promote disciplinary leadership and to prepare future nurses for practice. Our understanding of the factors associated with or predictive of nurse faculty retention and/or turnover is lacking.
The aim of this review is to identify and synthesize the existing literature on factors contributing to nurse faculty shortage in Canada and implications on nursing practice.
A scoping review based on the Arskey and O'Malley's five stage framework for scoping reviews was undertaken. Utilizing the PRISMA protocol, a comprehensive and structured literature search was conducted in five databases of studies published in English.
Limited through search inclusion and relevance of research, nine studies out of 220 papers met the criteria for this review and were thematically analyzed. Identified themes were supply versus demand; employment conditions; organizational support; and personal factors.
Impending retirement of faculty, unsupportive leadership, and stressful work environments were frequently reported as significant contributing factors to the faculty shortage.
This scoping review provides insights into how Canada's schools of nursing could engage in grounded efforts to lessen nursing faculty shortage, both nationally and globally. We identified a gap in the literature that indicates that foundational work is needed to create context-specific solutions. The limited studies published in Canada suggest that this is a critical area for future research and funding.
强大的护理教师队伍对于促进学科领导力以及培养未来护士的实践能力至关重要。然而，我们对于影响护理教师留任/离职的因素或预测因素的了解还很缺乏。
本综述旨在确定并综合加拿大护理教师短缺相关的文献，并探讨其对护理实践的影响。
本研究采用 Arskkey 和 O'Malley 的五步框架进行了范围综述。根据 PRISMA 协议，我们在五个英文数据库中对已发表的研究进行了全面而系统的文献检索。
由于搜索范围的限制和研究的相关性，在 220 篇论文中，仅有 9 篇符合本综述的标准，并进行了主题分析。确定的主题包括供需情况、就业条件、组织支持和个人因素。
即将退休的教师、缺乏支持的领导和压力大的工作环境经常被报道为导致教师短缺的重要因素。
本范围综述深入了解了加拿大护理学校如何在全国和全球范围内开展有针对性的努力，以减轻护理教师短缺的问题。我们发现文献中的一个空白，表明需要进行基础工作来制定特定于情境的解决方案。在加拿大发表的有限研究表明，这是未来研究和资金的一个关键领域。
