Strategies

  • To design a nurse faculty pipeline made up of part-time faculty, graduate students needing a preceptorship in nursing education, recent graduates from master’s in nursing education degree programs, practicing nurses who have a bachelor’s in science in nursing, hospital staff development personnel and preceptors.
  • To offer additional part-time paid opportunities to teach in the clinical simulation lab and/or at clinical sites in the first semester of the undergraduate nursing program.
  • To create a faculty development academy with programming specific to clinical simulation and evaluation of student competency and professional acumen for existing and aspiring faculty.
  • To offer continuing nursing education programming to community members who are interested in becoming faculty in the future.
  • To study the impact of additional part-time faculty who have participated in the faculty development academy on academic risk in students in the first semester of nursing school.