National Survey of Nurse Faculty

Reliable data on the current status of the nation's nursing schools with regard to factors contributing to the faculty shortage will be critical to motivating, designing, and implementing effective strategies for change. The national survey of nurse faculty will be designed to provide benchmark measures concerning faculty work-life for assessing interventions supported by Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education (EIN), provide a yardstick for nursing programs around the country to compare their faculty to those at similar institutions in their region, and yield a baseline snapshot for guiding and assessing the progress of national efforts to improve the work-life and retention of nurse faculty. The project will study approximately 4,000 nurse faculty members employed at 300 randomly selected nursing education programs representative of the population by program type (BSN and ADN) and region of the country.