Future Impact of the Change of Status to the Autonomous University System of Faculty of Nursing

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration established the Navamindradhiraj University under the autonomous university policy in 2010. As a result of the policy, Kuakarun College of Nursing becomes the Kuakarun Faculty of Nursing, Navamindradhiraj University. The change in this policy will affect the future of the Kuakarun Faculty of Nursing. The object of this research assessed the future impacts of the policy on nursing faculties. The study was conducted in the qualitative impact assessment. Data collection was performed by means of an in-depth interview seven administrators and group discussion of 12 nursing faculties. Data were analyzed by content analysis. The findings found the autonomous university policy has had direct and indirect impact on nursing faculties, causing them to resign and transfer to other institutions. The eventual consequence will be a shortage of nursing faculties. As a recommendation, the Faculty of Nursing should motivate nurses who graduate with master's degrees to become nursing faculties and should be paid with commensurate remuneration. In addition, budgets should be set for new nursing faculty development at the master's and doctorate levels to replace nursing faculties who are retiring in the future (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.