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Confronting The Social Mandate For Nursing Scholarship – One School Of Nursing’S Journey., Susan M. Duncan, Star Mahara, Victoria Holmes

Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière

The move to advance the qualification of nurses has necessitated the expansion of baccalaureate degree level nursing education to colleges and other less research-intensive post-secondary institutions in Canada and beyond. Shifts in the post-secondary institutional contexts of nursing education necessitate a re-thinking of the mandate and purpose of scholarship in nursing and how it can be sustained. Over a span of forty years, Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing has evolved from a community college program to one situated in a university college, and most recently within a new university. In this paper, we describe the purpose and process of …