Date of Award
12-2024
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School
Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice
Committee Chair
Dr. Lachel Story
Committee Chair School
Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice
Committee Member 2
Dr. LaWanda Baskin
Committee Member 2 School
Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice
Committee Member 3
Dr. Debra Copeland
Committee Member 3 School
Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice
Committee Member 4
Dr. Bonnie Harbaugh
Committee Member 5
Dr. Brian Street
Abstract
As nursing shortages rise, nursing faculty have the important responsibility of increasing the number of nursing school graduates that enter the nursing profession. Unfortunately, attrition and retention continue to prevent nursing students from graduating on time or at all. Nursing faculty compassion has been identified as one important factor that could decrease nursing student attrition and increase nursing student retention and program completion. Compassion is a concept built upon the constructs of forming connections, empathetic behaviors, student suffering and faculty recognition of needs, and alleviation of suffering. No existing instruments measure all of these constructs. Some existing tools that measure faculty supportive and caring behaviors; however, currently, no valid and reliable instruments are available to evaluate the entire concept of compassion as it applies to nursing faculty. This deficit led to this methodological study of the development and testing of the Nursing Faculty Compassion Instrument (NFCI), which was conducted in four phases.
ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0677-8676
Copyright
Nancy Pritchard, 2024
Recommended Citation
Pritchard, Nancy, "The Nurse Faculty Compassion Instrument: A Methodological Study" (2024). Dissertations. 2302.
https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/2302