DNP-prepared faculty entering an academic role are expected to maintain a clinical practice, teach/advise students, and fulfill service obligations, often leaving minimal time to build a program of scholarship. Dr. Jayne Dunlap, Dr. Tracy Brewer, and Dean Rosalie Mainous describe a new model they developed to provide external mentorship for DNP-prepared faculty to facilitate their scholarship. This model builds on the archetype of external mentors for PhD researchers.

Read their article in Nurse Educator: it is Open Access.