s of individual nursing faculty members. In part, also, however, the perceptions indicate that for nursing education, the incorporation of practice into the responsibilities of faculty may lead to both a reduction in role conflict and an enhancement of teaching and scholarly effectiveness.
The practice of nursing takes place within a culture. This culture is the pattern of individual attitudes and orientations among the members of both the nursing profession and the larger society of which the profession is a part. It is the subjective realm which underlies and give meaning to nursing actions. The components include cognitive orientations, affective orientations and evaluative orientations, or, in other words, judgments and opinions about factors involved in the process of nursing. One role of the nurse educator is to imbue nursing students with the culture of professional nursing.
One critical factor involved in the development of quality nursing faculty is the growing shortage of registered nurses
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