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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Health Care
They are talking about this topic: Educational Partnerships
The quotes below are about this issue:
Because there is a concern about a nursing faculty shortage, respondents suggest that MnSCU target nursing students with an aptitude for teaching in order to recruit them into nursing education. They also suggest that faculty divide their time between working in the field and teaching.
| "Employer 1: I think another thing that MnSCU needs to look at is that we have a nursing faculty shortage. Employer 2: Absolutely. Employer 1: And the Minnesota Board of Nursing with this national accreditation requirement increases the bar for credentialing master's degrees for all full-time nursing faculty. At [MnSCU college], our length in program isn't the same that you're dealing with up here. Our PN program is 44 credits and our AD program is 60 credits. And we actually get the luxury of going up to 64 credits now. We are candidates in both programs, and will be visited next year and hope to get it on first, but it's about 50/50 right now. Meanwhile, the faculty shortage is continuing, we were just at Health Educators last week, and we did a hand-raising on how many people are going to retire in the next five years—and there was a lot of grey hair in the room. So that is a major problem." |
Northwest |
| "So, we need people to educate the LPNs that we need now and the RNs that we are going to need as our aging population continues to get older and live longer and need more health care. So, one of the things MnSCU could do would be—some of these people that are going into RN programs may naturally have an aptitude for teaching—and those people should be directed into those areas. So, again, having the demographics and looking at what those needs are going to be. That's a huge one. If you have no one to teach, you can't educate." | Northwest |
| "A lot of people aren't drawn to it, 'Oh, boy, I want to be an educator! I want to be a researcher!' To tell the truth, educators don't tend to make as much. And if you don't find satisfaction in whatever you're doing, if you aren't called to it as a vocation, then where is this passion or commitment going to come from?" | Northwest |
| "Leadership and faculty." | Northwest |
| "We're lucky that a lot of our clinical instructors are instructors, but they also are staff nurses. So, that's been a positive thing. And then we have—on different councils of the hospital—we have faculty that sit on nursing councils and research and professional practice, policy and procedure. So, we have that combination. I think what would really be beneficial would be to, at some point, have a role where half of the faculty's salary comes from industry and half of it comes from the college. I think that would really be nice to have that partnership. There are all kinds of issues that get wrapped around that." | Northwest |