New Jersey's Nursing Faculty Shortage

A Technical Report for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

By: Reinhard S, Wright B, and Cook ME
Published: 10/1/2007

Commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this report is a “state of the state” snapshot of nursing faculty workforce issues in New Jersey. The main components of the paper include:

Factors underlying the nursing faculty workforce shortage in New Jersey
Current educational pathways for nursing faculty in this state
Critical issues that affect faculty recruitment and retention, including average faculty salaries, faculty workload issues, and current and anticipated faculty vacancies
Trends that may affect New Jersey's faculty workforce/pipeline
Promising practices
Recommendations

The report offers several key findings, based on a review of the literature, interviews with national and state experts in nursing education, and a statewide meeting of the New Jersey Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing and invited guests.

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