NursingFacultyJobs.com to Catalog Solutions to Shortage of Nursing Faculty

In response to the nursing faculty shortage and need for workable solutions, NursingFacultyJobs.com will devote a part of its website to examples that have worked in practice for such issues as: Why and how to develop a market-based salary for nursing educators, where to find the money, how to encourage more nurses to pursue an advanced degree, how to partner with healthcare agencies to assist in recruitment and retention of nursing faculty, and workload issues for nursing educators.

Yuma, AZ (PRWEB) November 7, 2007 -- NursingFacultyJobs.com (http://www.nursingfacultyjobs.com) to Catalog Solutions to the shortage of nursing faculty (http://www.nursingfacultyjobs.com/shortage.html).

For the past decade, health care organizations have been sounding the alarm regarding a shortage of nurses that threatens to cripple health care delivery in the United States with a projected shortfall of close to one million nurses by the year 2020. As the problem was analyzed, it was found that one of the drivers of the looming shortage of nurses was an even more challenging shortage of nursing faculty. Indeed, according to the Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), more than 40,000 qualified students were turned away from nursing programs in part because of a lack of faculty to teach them.

Advocacy organizations such as the National League for Nursing and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing have conducted studies regarding the causes of the nursing faculty shortages. The substantive findings have been that nursing faculty salaries lag far behind (sometimes 50% or more) what peers with similar qualifications would make in the clinical setting. This problem is compounded when one considers that often nurses graduating with an associate degree can earn more than the faculty who taught them. This results in fewer nurses pursuing the advanced degrees required for nursing faculty positions (http://nursingfacultyjobs.com/webjobs/index.php?action=quick_search&page=quick_search&template_used=quick_search_secondary&country=United+States&keywords=nursing+faculty&industry=&country=United+States&state=&city=). Additionally, faculty workload for nurse educators can be even more demanding than it would have been had they stayed in a clinical setting.

In response to the nursing faculty shortage and need for workable solutions, NursingFacultyJobs.com will devote a part of its website to examples that have worked in practice for such issues as:

Why and how to develop a market-based salary for nursing educators

Where to find the money

How to encourage more nurses to pursue an advanced degree

How to partner with health care agencies to assist in recruitment and retention of nursing faculty

Workload issues for nursing educators

"There has been a lot of talk about the problem of the shortage of nurses and nursing faculty shortage, but little advice solving the problem is making it to the national media," states Shane Turner, Owner of NursingFacultyJobs.com. "Previously, I was a college director of human resources responsible for recruiting nursing faculty, so I learned first hand what the problems were as well as some successful approaches for dealing with them. I know there are colleges out there thinking 'what can we do?' and my hope is to provide them with answers."

NursingFacultyJobs.com, a website providing nursing educators and employers a place to find each other, was started in 2005 in response to a perception by Turner that traditional recruiting means didn't adequately understand the needs of nursing faculty candidates. According to Turner, "Perhaps more than faculty in other disciplines, nursing educators have dual roles. They are first and foremost nurses and must stay current on the latest clinical treatments. While other faculty need to keep up with changes in their field, someone's life doesn't usually depend upon it." That difference, says Turner, creates a situation where nursing educators spend a great deal of time staying current in their discipline, and that's where NursingFacultyJobs.com reaches out to them. "My perception was validated at the first conference we attended," states Turner. "Nursing educators (http://nursingfacultyjobs.com/webjobs/index.php?action=quick_search&page=quick_search&template_used=quick_search_secondary&keywords=nurse+educator&industry=&country=United+States&state=&city=&x=0&y=0) were saying things like, 'thank you for caring about us,' and 'what you are doing is very important.' That gave me the confirmation that we were on the right track." NursingFacultyJobs.com is the only website specializing in nursing faculty employment and currently has over 300 active jobs on the site with more being added each day.

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