Learning Objective #1: Describe one strategy for promoting the value of research for graduate students

Learning Objective #2: Discuss a framework for facilitating scholarship among faculty and graduate students based on Boyer's Model

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Ongoing student-faculty research is one successful strategy which promotes scholarship in the School of Nursing at San Josë State University. A longitudinal, multi-site study examining staff nurse perceptions of their work environment and the relationship between perceptions of the work environment and retention provides the structure for faculty and graduate student research. In addition to providing a unique and supportive research environment for graduate students, faculty have benefited from this collaboration as second and third authors as they serve as the Project Advisors for the students. This is also congruent with the School of Nursing's definition of scholarship developed from the activities defined in the Boyer Model of Discovery (1990) in which master's prepared nurses serve on a research team. This is further developed to meet the activity of “integration” in which publication and presentation is the expected outcome. Over the past two years, 8 graduate students completed their research projects as participants in the faculty led research. All graduate students are required to develop a manuscript and submit the manuscript to a refereed journal. To date, 5 manuscripts have been published. There have been 6 international and national presentations based on the project. Furthermore, the topic is timely since increasing nursing retention is a key to decreasing the nursing shortage.