Leadership qualities faculty desire in academic leaders: An international Delphi study.

Background: The global nursing workforce is confounded by shortages of nurses, faculty, and academic nursing leaders. Nursing academic leaders influence faculty recruitment and retention influencing the enrollment pipeline to fill nurse workforce capacity.

Objective: To identify leadership qualities nursing faculty prefer in nursing academic leaders globally.

Desired and received support as experienced by faculty of color in nursing academia: A qualitative study.

Background: Faculty of color are crucial to the development of a diverse nursing workforce but remain underrepresented in nursing academia.

Purpose: The purpose of this current study is to identify elements of support received and desired by nursing faculty of color for retention and promotion in academia.

Methods: A semi-structured interview was used to collect data from 16 faculty of color from nursing schools across the United States.

Exploring alternative forms of scholarship for nurse educators' success.

Background: Teaching-intensive universities require faculty to have increased teaching workloads. Nursing faculty have additional burdens that faculty members in other disciplines and departments do not experience, making it difficult to produce scholarship as it has been traditionally defined in research-intensive universities. Teaching-intensive universities should begin to rethink nursing faculty expectations for meeting their universities' missions of scholarship, especially those required for tenure.

Factors Influencing Smoking Decisions Among Older Korean American Men: A Qualitative Study.

Cigarette smoking is highly prevalent among Korean American men. Although the nationwide anti-smoking efforts and American individualism-oriented cultural system seem to help some Korean American men stop smoking, many of them still smoke. Thus, it is necessary to understand factors influencing decisions to continue smoking or stop smoking among older Korean American men.

Mentoring and Support for Underrepresented Nursing Faculty: An Integrative Research Review.

Background: Nursing faculty members may need several mentors to succeed in scholarly productivity, career development, work-life balance, and socialization in the academy. Underrepresented (UR) faculty report additional challenges to success.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to search the literature for best practices in mentoring UR faculty.

Perceptions of support by nursing faculty of color.

Background: Racial and ethnic minority faculty members within nursing academia are critical to the recruitment and training of a diverse health care workforce. Effective strategies and opportunities for the success of minorities within nursing faculty must be identified and explored.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify strategies for support being utilized by nursing faculty of color, and support systems that practicing faculty of color believe would aid their success in academia.

Microaggression in Academia: Consequences and Considerations.

Microaggression as a concept has received significant attention in the popular media as well as in literature. The concept has yet to be addressed, however, in the context of health care education or academia. In this article, current thoughts on racial microaggressions are reviewed with a focus on implications for nursing faculty and academia.

An Interprofessional Web-Based Teaching Module to Enhance Competency of the Advanced Practice Nursing Clinical Education in the Emergency Department.

Many advanced practice registered nursing (APRN) students struggle to thrive in their clinical rotation due to the wide variability in their clinical knowledge. To address the variability and gaps in knowledge, we created an interprofessional web-based, self-directed curriculum for APRN students that is clinically relevant and specific to the emergency department (ED) rotation. The modules are a product of collaboration between the medical, nursing, and pharmacy faculty at an academic medical center.

A Case of Drug-Induced Severe Endocrinopathies: What Providers in the Emergency Department Need to Know.

The purpose of this article is to present a discussion of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) that are relatively new, yet growing, form of cancer therapy. Immune checkpoint inhibitors increase host immune response against neoplastic cells. Strengthened immunological response increases the potential for adverse events such as life-threatening endocrinopathies.