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.