Dissemination of nursing scholarship is of paramount importance as nurses continue to advance the profession. In academia, faculty and students frequently collaborate on scholarship leading to opportunities for publication. This paper explores the challenges and opportunities accompanying co-authorship between faculty and students. While several professional disciplines and organizations formulated guidelines and procedures specific to authorship practices between faculty and students, literature specific to authorship practices among nursing faculty and students is lacking. This paper explores the opportunities and challenges with faculty-student authorship and outlines current practices among other disciplines to aid in providing recommendations for faculty-student authorship collaboration in nursing. Future research on common practices for nursing faculty-student authorship needs to be explored.
