The nation is facing a critical shortage of registered nurses. At a time when the health care industry requires more nurses, the capacity of the nursing education system is diminishing. Drawing on extensive interviews with nurse educators, this book examines women's struggles to gain authority and respect in the academic profession and to use that authority to influence the nursing faculty shortage. Nursing is bound in an ideology based on women's duty and members of the profession have had to battle sexist beliefs and values. Hierarchies within the health care system and academia place the...