Scholarship is an important facet of the nursing profession. There are many components, virtues, and roles and responsibilities of a nursing scholar practicing in
today’s ever-changing health care environment. Scholarship was redefined by
Boyer to include scholarly activities in addition to research. Boyer’s Model of
Scholarship includes four interrelated and overlapping domains of discovery,
integration, application, and teaching. Each domain is explained with examples
for the pediatric nurse scholar, which includes roles in academia as well as in the
practice setting. Pediatric nurses are key to scholarship in nursing because they
work to improve the care of children.