title: Attrition of full-time faculty from schools of nursing with baccalaureate and graduate programs, 2010 to 2011.
abstract: The shortage of qualified faculty has been consistently reported as a major barrier impeding acceptance of all qualified applicants into nursing programs. In addition to faculty recruitment, the attrition of faculty is also a concern for schools of nursing. In this study, we found that nationally 11.8% of full-time faculty who worked in 2010 left their full-time jobs by 2011. Nearly half of total attrition, or 5.7% of full-time faculty members, were related to leaving for nonacademic nursing positions, whereas another 20% of attrition, or 2.4% of full-time faculty, resulted from retirement. Nearly 20% of faculty egressions, or 2.2% of full-time faculty, was due to leaving for nursing administrative positions or full-time faculty positions in an academic setting. Leaving for part-time faculty positions made up slightly more than 10% of faculty attrition or 1.3% of full-time faculty. Our bivariate analysis identifies distinctive academic and demographic profiles of faculty who left full-time positions for different reasons, and our multivariate analysis further shows that different individual and institutional attributes are significantly associated with different types of attrition.
authors.affiliation: American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC. Electronic address: dfang@aacn.nche.edu.
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Geraldine D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Bednash
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002321:Career Choice; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D012179:Retirement; D012579:Schools, Nursing; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce
keywords: Faculty attrition; Faculty retention; Faculty retirement; Faculty shortage; Male faculty; Minority faculty