Carol Starling | PubMed Health

PubMed2003

Nurse educator shortage. New program approach.

The nursing shortage is here and now. Nursing faculty are againg and retiring, enhancing the current and projected faculty shortage. A skilled clinician is not automatically a skilled educator; the different roles involve different skill sets. The Nurse Educator Certificate for advanced practice clinicians offers one answer to the looming shortages. The new web-based educator certificate provides flexibility for students preparing to meet the rapidly changing healthcare needs of our population. Students benefit from an opportunity to improve their educator skill set in a convenient mode from their hoem communities.

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PubMed2002

Faculty-agency partnering for improved client outcomes.

Implications for practice and education include recognition of the value of clinical outcome studies to clinicians and administrators in clinical agencies, as well as to nursing education. This project provides an example of the opportunity for mutually beneficial education and practice partnerships. Faculty, staff, and students demonstrated their ability to use the basic model for outcome studies developed by the United Way of America (1996). Teams of staff, faculty, and students were able to design small scale outcome studies that provided valuable information for clinicians and administrators about evaluating and improving the quality of clinical services, as well as for seeking continued funding. It is anticipated that further benefits may be discovered when faculty work with agencies to target program outcomes that will yield the most powerful effect for these agencies.

Clinical Nursing Research↗