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The semester is over — and if you're already building a summer to-do list, this is your sign to pause. NP faculty are wired to keep moving, but sprinting straight from finals into a packed development agenda isn't growth. It's just working under a different label. This summer, try a different approach: rest first, then grow. Your fall students — and your future self — will thank you.

A 2022 article published in Medical Education Online titled "When Students' Words Hurt: 12 Tips for Helping Faculty Receive and Respond Constructively to Student Evaluations of Teaching" by Cornes and colleagues offers evidence-based guidance for exactly this moment. I'm breaking down their key recommendations here through the lens of NP faculty life, because this research is too good not to keep sharing.

My qualitative study on academic nurse leader (ANL) role development was published in Nursing Education Perspectives. I interviewed 18 nurse leaders across the country — program directors, chairpersons, assistant and associate deans, and deans — to understand how they actually developed in their roles. What I found was equal parts validating and sobering. Here are five strategies drawn directly from the findings of this study.

You open the gradebook. There are 24 discussion posts, 18 SOAP notes, or a stack of concept maps waiting for your feedback. You take a breath, open the first submission, and (if you're anything like most graduate nursing faculty) you feel the familiar pull to just fix it all. Here's the truth no one says loudly enough: you are not responsible for fixing everything, and trying to do so doesn't actually help students learn. In this post, we review how to give feedback that supp

If you've been in a faculty role for more than five minutes, you've probably realized that the wheels of academic change move slowly. Very slowly. And yet, without a formal title, it might feel like you just don’t have the power or influence to help and make a difference. But here's the thing: you do.

Your graduate nursing students are the not the same “blank slates” that they used to be in their undergraduate programs. These students are nurses. Some of them will have twenty years of professional nursing wisdom, while others will be fresh from a BSN program, and they can all be admitted together in the same cohort. This heterogeneity is not a challenge to be managed. It is a gift to be used. But only if you understand two theoretical frameworks: andragogy & constructivism