Productivity of nursing faculty in selected nursing institutes, Bangalore, Karnataka

Quality Education is the foundation to building a competent health workforce which is central in achieving universal health coverage. In support of this vital cause, the World Health Organization and its partners have compiled the core competencies for Nurse Faculty/Educators to improve nursing education and, ultimately, the quality of nursing services. The core competencies highlight that Faculty should do a lot more than just teach and evaluate students. Out of Classroom Faculty Activity like Research, Collaboration, Partnership, Advocacy and Leadership should also be focused upon. This will determine their productivity. Hence faculty productivity embraces a great deal more than that can be captured in a student credit hours taught per faculty.¹

A Non-experimental descriptive research design was chosen for assessing the productivity of Nursing faculty. The instrument used for data collection were Demographic Variables Performa, 3-Point Likert Scale to assess the Individual Faculty Productivity Level (IFPL), Modified Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (FSPI) quantitatively evaluated Out of Classroom Faculty Activity in addition to teaching workload, Checklist to assess the institutional contribution towards the productivity of individual nursing faculty.

90% of the faculty rated themselves to have high level Individual Faculty Productivity contrary to the findings of the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index which showed that 52% faculty had poor productivity and 48% had moderate productivity. This study reveals that nursing faculty did not understand the broader perspective of Productivity and should be motivated to participate in Out of Classroom Faculty Activity which enhances professional development and improves the quality of teaching & practice.