Date of Award

Fall 2018

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

School

Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice

Committee Chair

Jane Butts

Committee Chair School

Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice

Committee Member 2

Lachel Story

Committee Member 2 School

Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice

Committee Member 3

Kathleen Masters

Committee Member 3 School

Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice

Committee Member 4

Sheila Davis

Committee Member 4 School

Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice

Committee Member 5

Demetrius Porche

Abstract

As the nursing shortage continues, the demand for new nurses will increase. In 2015, nursing schools in the United States turned away 62,361 qualified applicants in the baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs (Fang, Li, Arietti, & Trautman, 2016). The number of funded, vacant nursing faculty positions increased from 6.9% in 2014 to 7.1% in 2015 (Fang et al., 2016). One idea to help with the nursing faculty shortage is to recruit male RNs into nurse faculty positions. Males count for 10.6% of nurses in the United States (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2016). However, men only count for 5.5% of full-time faculty at baccalaureate and higher-degree schools of nursing (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2013). An inductive qualitative content analysis was done to determine why males do not choose nursing faculty positions as career choices. Ten nurse practitioners were interviewed and recorded. Two categories abstracted from the interviews were Gender and Rewards. Stereotyping issues still need to be overcome by nursing as a profession and society as a whole if more males are to consider nursing faculty positions as a career option. Also, the rewards of teaching need to include internal and external rewards which are important to male nurses.

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