CONTACT - Volume 8, Number 2
Graduate Programs in Nursing

Scholarliness

In reconceptualizing scholarship beyond research, Boyer (1990) expanded the definition to include the integration of knowledge through conceptualization, the scholarship of application through practice, and the scholarship of teaching. These domains more fully capture the nature and mission of nursing. The goal of scholarship at Barry University Division of Nursing is to develop knowledge that has significance to humanity and to extend the discipline of nursing. With a shift in focus to community based nursing, both in nursing practice and education, we have many new opportunities for scholarship.

Scholarship in the form of conceptualization and research can be actualized through our dynamic and changing Center for Nursing Research. Application through practice is a major focus of the Primary Care Nursing Center. The newly funded Resource Center for Community-Based Nursing Practice promises to be a repository for innovative teaching strategies that will further the scholarship of teaching.

Given the abundant opportunities for scholarliness at the Division of Nursing, we invite you to take the challenge and involve yourself in our quest to extend the knowledge of our discipline. For our current students, this means involvement with faculty and programs that are currently underway within the school and university. For alumni, this means sharing your work so that we may dialogue and develop a forum to refine what we perceive as our contribution to knowledge.

If you have ideas, don't hesitate to write or call. Join the faculty and me as we energize nursing scholarship in the school.

Boyer, E. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate [special report]. Princeton, NJ: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Janyce Dyer, DNSc, RN, CS, FNP-C, CRNP;
Associate Dean for Graduate Programs