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Contributed Content: Investing in Preceptor Education – A Necessity for the Future of Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Being a preceptor is more than teaching someone the tasks of the job, says this nurse educator. With a background in critical care, progressive care, and emergency nursing, she is dedicated to advancing nursing education and practice. Their education has been shaped by a pandemic that upended traditional models.

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Maryland’s Healthcare Preceptor Tax Credit: A Call to Action

American Nurse

Introduction In 2016, Maryland became one of the first states to implement a Healthcare Preceptor Tax Credit. The aim of this legislation was to help alleviate healthcare workforce shortages in the State, and it provided a tax incentive to nurse practitioner student preceptors. Rasheed et al, 2020).

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Nurses With DNP Degree Are Sorely Needed in Health Care and Education

Nurse.com

Nurses have many points of entry into the nursing profession — and, ultimately, to a Doctor of Nursing Practice, including entering as licensed practical nurses (LPN) or licensed vocational nurses (LVN). They’re needed in practice and educator roles. How to Become a DNP Nurse. DNP Job Outlook.

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The Exec: How Phoenix Children's is Better Preparing Nursing Students to Work in Pediatrics

Health Leaders | Nursing

These are nurses who know they want to be a pediatric nurse, and we want to give them that opportunity, so they are part of what we call the Designated Education Unit, where we concentrated all of their clinical hours on the pediatric population and those kids that they would see at Phoenix Children's.

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Can Academic Partnerships Fix the Nursing Shortage?

Health Leaders | Nursing

The education of future nurses can go far beyond university and collegiate experience as well. “[We The grant is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services and is part of the HRSA’s Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) grant program. Support after recruitment How can CNOs build upon this progress?

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Advance Your Nursing Career: Creating a Nursing E-Portfolio is Easier Than You Think

Daily Nurse

But we do much more than obtain required continuing education hours, maintain certifications, and renew licenses. We should all record our many accomplishments, such as presentations, publications, preceptor hours, acts of service, etc. Where are you documenting that?

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On leaving and loving nursing

American Nurse

The 2022 National Nursing Workforce Study conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) reported that an estimated 100,000 (to as many as 200,000) RNs and 34,000 licensed practical (LPNs) and vocational nurses left the workforce over the past 2 years. The reason? The pandemic. Although acute care hospitals employ 73.5%