Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland-based University Hospitals are partnering with three other systems and organizations to launch a nursing faculty boot camp.
The Nursing Clinical Adjunct Faculty Initiative is an intensive boot camp to prepare nurses for adjunct professor roles, according to a June 3 joint news release. Plans for the initiative began in 2024 in response to the clinical faculty shortage in nursing education and were conceived with the help of 16 regional nursing schools. The first boot camp will begin this summer.
“This collaboration with practice and academic partners aims not only to increase the number of available nursing clinical adjunct faculty, but also to enhance the quality of education delivered,” Holly Ma, DNP, RN, Marian Shaughnessy Endowed Vice President of Nursing Professional Development, Practice and Research at University Hospitals, said in the release.
The initiative is currently focused on increasing the number of nurse educators, but it has several other goals it will begin tackling:
- Reduce student waitlists and increasing enrollment in nursing programs.
- Expand clinical rotation capacity at Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals.
- Address burnout by creating access to a larger pool of educators.
The initiative partnership also includes Cuyahoga County Healthcare Sector Partnership, a collaboration of hospitals in Cuyahoga County, Cleveland-based MetroHealth and Southwest General.
