TY - JOUR
T1 - Faculty retirement
T2 - Stemming the tide
AU - Foxall, Martha
AU - Megel, Mary Erickson
AU - Grigsby, Karen
AU - Billings, Judith Sims
PY - 2009/3
Y1 - 2009/3
N2 - The shortage of nursing faculty is becoming a crisis in schools of nursingand is contributing to the shortage of qualified graduates to add to the nursing workforce. Aging and retirement of existing faculty contribute to the crisis. Creating retention initiatives may encourage faculty to postpone retirement. This article explored the conditions and situations which would entice faculty to continue working beyond their intended retirement date. Faculty identified workload and responsibilities, available resources, personal and professional characteristics, and work environment as areas that could be developed into incentives to remain in the faculty workforce.
AB - The shortage of nursing faculty is becoming a crisis in schools of nursingand is contributing to the shortage of qualified graduates to add to the nursing workforce. Aging and retirement of existing faculty contribute to the crisis. Creating retention initiatives may encourage faculty to postpone retirement. This article explored the conditions and situations which would entice faculty to continue working beyond their intended retirement date. Faculty identified workload and responsibilities, available resources, personal and professional characteristics, and work environment as areas that could be developed into incentives to remain in the faculty workforce.
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U2 - 10.3928/01484834-20090301-07
DO - 10.3928/01484834-20090301-07
M3 - Article
C2 - 19297970
AN - SCOPUS:66349104885
SN - 0148-4834
VL - 48
SP - 172
EP - 175
JO - Journal of Nursing Education
JF - Journal of Nursing Education
IS - 3
ER -