Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education (EIN National Program Office) - Year 2

EIN supports evaluations of interventions that expand teaching capacity or promote faculty recruitment and retention in nursing schools. The program aims to increase the number of nursing school graduates by evaluating a broad range of strategies that address the nurse faculty shortage. The National Program Office (NPO) provides leadership for the grant-making cycles, provides ongoing technical assistance to applicants and grantees, and establishes national benchmark measures of the status of the faculty shortage in nursing schools across the country. An important activity of the NPO is disseminating successful strategies so they can be replicated in other nursing education settings. The program is a component of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's strategy to address the nursing shortage by building nurse leadership capacity, improving the work environment for nurses and faculty, finding innovative ways to educate more nurses and promoting awareness of their central role in the health care delivery system among policy-makers and the general public.