Actual and required faculty work: education cost in nursing - doi: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v11i5.17051

Abstract

This study is part of a prospective case study carried out to assess the required faculty activities (no student contact hours) identified with the Model to Estimate the Total Educational Costs (MECEE) of an Integrated Nursing Curriculum Program at a Public University. Fifty-two members were interviewed in order to describe their working hours. Non-contact hours were also assigned in the interviews. The non-acknowledged hours could be identified as: time for class preparation, research, outreach services, patient assistance and personal education needs fulfillment. It is important to know all the college faculty work hours whereas the actual work hours is different from the prescribed ones, and must be identified, so that all costs can be effectively acknowledged  and measured, as well as the teaching work duly paid.