{"id":922,"date":"2016-04-18T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/?p=922"},"modified":"2016-04-18T06:59:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T06:59:04","slug":"nurse-academics-rewards-and-challenges-undertaking-research-and-scholarly-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/2016\/04\/18\/nurse-academics-rewards-and-challenges-undertaking-research-and-scholarly-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse academics rewards and challenges: undertaking research and scholarly activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday 20<sup>th<\/sup> April between 8-9 pm (GMT) will be hosted by Professor Alison Twycross (@alitwy) who is editor of EBN and Dr Joanna Smith (@josmith175) one of the journal\u2019s associate editors and will focus on the following question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>What promotes and what stops nurse academics undertaking research <\/strong><strong>&amp; scholarly activity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Participating in the Twitter Chat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Participating in the Twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not already have one you can create an account at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\">www.twitter.com<\/a>. Once you have an account contributing is straightforward, You can follow the discussion by searching links to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#ebnjc\">#ebnjc<\/a>, or contribute by creating and sending a tweet (tweets are text messages limited to 140 characters) to @EBNursingBMJ and add <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#ebnjc\">#ebnjc<\/a> (the EBN Twitter chat hash tag) at the end of your tweet, this allows everyone taking part to view your tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions within professional-oriented departments can be a result of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Organisational requirements such as increasing the number of nursing students to respond to commissioners needs to meet workforce demands;<\/li>\n<li>Pressures to develop research capacity, and secure funding through competitive funding streams, particularly for research intense universities;<\/li>\n<li>Professional &amp; academic role conflicts, where professional identities may be more meaningful than an academic identity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These tensions may be hindering nurse academic embracing research and scholarship. There is a growing body of evidence about the challenges, and rearwards, of nurses moving from professions practice to academia for example:<\/p>\n<p>Smith, C. and Boyd, P., 2012. Becoming an academic: The reconstruction of identity by recently appointed lecturers in nursing, midwifery and the allied health professions. <em>Innovations in Education and Teaching International<\/em>, <em>49<\/em>(1), pp.63-72.<\/p>\n<p>Schulz, J., 2013. The impact of role conflict, role ambiguity and organizational climate on the job satisfaction of academic staff in research-intensive universities in the UK. <em>Higher Education Research &amp; Development<\/em>, <em>32<\/em>(3), pp.464-478.<\/p>\n<p>Findlow, S., 2012. Higher education change and professional-academic identity in newly \u2018academic\u2019 disciplines: the case of nurse education. <em>Higher Education<\/em>, <em>63<\/em>(1), pp.117-133.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some things to think about before the Twitter Chat<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How do you define scholarly activity?<\/li>\n<li>Does your university have a workload model? If so, does this include time allocated for research and scholarly activity?<\/li>\n<li>How do you balance competing demands, student teaching and learning activities with research and scholarly activities?<\/li>\n<li>What are the expectations within your organization in relation to engaging in research and scholarly activity?<\/li>\n<li>What helps you engage in research and scholarly activity?<\/li>\n<li>What support is available to help you engage in research and scholarly activity?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday 20th April between 8-9 pm (GMT) will be hosted by Professor Alison Twycross (@alitwy) who is editor of EBN and Dr Joanna Smith (@josmith175) one of the journal\u2019s associate editors and will focus on the following question: What promotes and what stops nurse academics undertaking research &amp; scholarly [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/2016\/04\/18\/nurse-academics-rewards-and-challenges-undertaking-research-and-scholarly-activity\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3606],"tags":[3614,3613,3665],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebn-journal-chat-ebnjc","tag-ebnursingbmj","tag-ebnjc","tag-nursing-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}