Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program leadership training

Background The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program was created to address the nursing shortage via development of the next generation of national leaders in academic nursing. Purpose The leadership training combined development at the scholar's home institution with in-person didactic and interactive sessions with notable leaders in nursing and other disciplines. Methods A curriculum matrix, organized by six domains, was evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively. Discussion What set this program apart is that it immersed junior faculty in concerted leadership development with regard to all aspects of the faculty role so that teaching interactively, making use of the latest in information technology, giving testimony before a policy-making group, participating in strategic planning, and figuring out how to reduce the budget without jeopardizing quality were all envisioned as part of the faculty role. Conclusion The domains covered by this program could easily be used as the framework to plan other leadership-development programs for the next generation of academic leader

EVALUATIONS OF PARENTING PERFORMANCE: THE EFFECTS OF LEVEL OF SUCCESS, SEX OF STIMULUS PARENT, SEX OF STIMULUS CHILD, SEX OF RESPONDENT, AND GENERATION.

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The impact of the Nurse Faculty Scholars program on schools of nursing.

BACKGROUND: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program was conceptualized as not only promoting the growth and development of early-career faculty but as enhancing the research infrastructure of scholars\u27 schools of nursing. PURPOSE: At the completion of the scholars\u27 three years of support, deans/directors were asked to provide feedback regarding the institutional impact of the scholars\u27 participation in the program. METHODS: Phone interviews were conducted on the first five completed cohorts and a six-item questionnaire was developed to obtain some quantitative data. DISCUSSION: The program was viewed as having accelerated the scholars\u27 leadership and scholarship, and their influence within the school/university and regionally/nationally. Deans/directors generally agreed that the scholars\u27 experience helped build the school\u27s research portfolio. CONCLUSION: Looking back on how the participating schools of nursing fared, one can say that the program\u27s institutional expectations were achieved most of the time. The program helped scholars build their own reputations and that in turn had consequences for the school\u27s standing as a whole. A number of components are described that can be replicated singly or in various combinations by schools/universities interested in adopting aspects of this program