Mission, Goals, and Strategies
Mission
The GEER II grant funding will provide an opportunity for recipients to amplify projects that are intended to alleviate the nursing faculty pipeline challenges that currently exist, specifically the shortage of nursing faculty and simulation coordinators, who are essential in educating nurses.
Goals
To design and disseminate an online faculty development course through the Canvas learning management system based on the INACSL Core Four healthcare simulation standards of best practice.
To provide dedicated training and development opportunities for clinical instructors to achieve the foundational level in each of the eight domains of healthcare simulation operations.
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 programs, practicing nurses with a bachelor’s in science in nursing (BSN), 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.