title: Facilitators and inhibitors of practice: a faculty perspective.
abstract: Nurse educators are being encouraged to integrate the role of faculty practice into the role expectations of the educational institution. Schools of nursing are faced with the challenge of facilitating faculty who wish to adopt the practice role. There are limited studies documenting factors that facilitate or inhibit faculty who engage in practice. This article presents the findings of a Delphi procedure used to collect the consensus of practicing faculty concerning organizational and personal facilitators and inhibitors of faculty practice. In this study, 299 faculty representing 170 schools of nursing completed all three rounds of the Delphi. The findings present the top five factors identified by practicing faculty as personal and organizational facilitators and inhibitors of their practice.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912-4732.
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Nugent
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Barger
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Bridges
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003697:Delphi Technique; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D009734:Nursing Faculty Practice; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010379:Peer Group; D012380:Role; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*