Leveraging faculty practice to grow the nurse practitioner faculty workforce

Abstract

Objective: The purpose is to explore opportunities to leverage faculty practice to grow the NP faculty workforce.
Methods: The data were a subset of a larger study surveying NP students and faculty.
Results: Findings support faculty practice as an innovative strategy that can be leveraged to grow the NP faculty workforce.
Conclusions: There are missed opportunities for growing the NP workforce when faculty practice is not being used 1) as a strategy to recruit and retain faculty and 2) to entice NP students to consider a future career in academia.

Keywords

Vacancy / Shortage / Academia / Work-life balance / Recruitment / Retention / Burnout

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