Degree Name
Nursing Practice, DNP
Publication Date
Spring 2025
Upload Date
5/5/2025
First Advisor
Dr. King
Abstract
Nurse educators play an integral part in combating the nursing shortage. Transitioning clinical nurses to the academic setting can be challenging because experienced clinical nurses often enter the academic setting as novice nurse educators. A literature review suggested that the lack of structured onboarding programs contributes to the satisfaction, retention, and professional development of nurse educators. The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project aims to improve new nurse faculty onboarding by implementing a checklist to structure the onboarding process at the DNP project site. The process change project assesses the effects of a checklist on faculty satisfaction with the onboarding process by using pre-intervention and post-intervention surveys. The Likert-style surveys contained questions regarding the participants’ feelings of satisfaction with onboarding to the academic setting. A two-tailed paired t-test compared the mean differences between no checklist and utilizing a checklist with new nurse faculty onboarding. New faculty were defined as being employed for less than one year at the DNP project site. No statistical significance was found in the variable rankings related to the university orientation process (p=0.057). A statistical significance in satisfaction was noted for the variable rankings related to clinical orientation (p=0.001) and the roles/responsibilities of the academic nurse (p=0.002). The results demonstrate a need for the inclusion of onboarding checklists to provide structure to the onboarding process. The project offers a sustainable model for supporting new faculty satisfaction and transition to the academic setting.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Poole, TaRessa W., "The Effects of an Onboarding Checklist on Nursing Faculty Satisfaction" (2025). Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects. 122.
https://arch.astate.edu/dnp-projects/122
