Expanding The Capacity Of Nursing Education

Abstract

Assuring a nurse workforce that is large enough and possesses the right competencies for the changing demographic and health reform scenarios of the early twenty-first century is nothing short of an imperative. Getting there will involve continual recruitment of a talented and diverse group of people and increasing nurses' progression to a more highly educated workforce, no matter where they enter the profession. These actions will enable the United States to fill vacant nursing faculty positions as we simultaneously re-create how nursing education is delivered in this country. The nation's health is dependent on the actions we now take.

To Teach or Not to Teach: 2011 National Survey of Physician Assistants and Preceptor Experiences

“…3 Furthermore, nursing schools have identified shortages of clinical sites as one of the most important factors limiting the expansion of nursing programs. 4 Similar concerns apply to PA education as the number of PA programs has grown and is projected to grow steadily. As of October 2012, the number of accredited PA programs in the United States reached 170, and it is expected to reach 218 programs by 2025.…”

Why not nursing? A systematic review of factors influencing career choice among healthcare students

“…This has resulted in qualified applicants being rejected from the nursing course, leading to a vicious cycle (Cleary et al. ).…”

“…On the other hand, studies showed that there have been nursing faculty shortages due to competition from other career paths and a lack of qualified educators in training new nursing students. This has resulted in qualified applicants being rejected from the nursing course, leading to a vicious cycle (Cleary et al 2009).…”

“…On top of that, hospital administrators could help parents better understand nursing as a profession by organizing nursing career fairs. With regard to the lack of an educational pipeline, collaboration between community colleges and universities could solve the problem (Cleary et al 2009). Some improvements in extrinsic factors such as raising nurses' salaries to be on par with other healthcare workers, and providing more decisionmaking avenues that encourage students to choose nursing could help secure job autonomy and professional prestige for nurses.…”

Confronting the social mandate for nursing scholarship – One school of nursing’s journey.

“…Second, there are more postsecondary institutions, including some community colleges, offering degrees in nursing which in turn raises the critical question of the form that scholarship should take in these institutions. Third, it is anticipated that the nursing shortage will be most acute in the academic sector and the problem therefore is one of how scarce human resources should be directed -for the development of the profession and the discipline (CASN, 2010;Cleary et al, 2009;Nursing Education Council of British Columbia, 2011).…”