title: Expanding educational capacity through an innovative practice-education partnership.
abstract: This article describes a unique demonstration project using a collaborative practice and education partnership to expand baccalaureate student education capacity by 75% in an accelerated nursing program. Components of the project include using hospital-paid (donated) master's clinicians as clinical faculty; using online course delivery for the non-clinical theory nursing courses, thereby decreasing the need for classroom space; employing a Web instructional designer to convert the existing master's nurse educator program to an online format in an effort to increase the pipeline of nursing faculty; renovating existing space to expand the nursing skills laboratory; and purchasing equipment and supplies for the simulated patient environment modules in the expanded skills laboratory space. Both formative and summative measures will be used to evaluate the project, which is expected to produce 24 additional workforce-ready baccalaureate-prepared RNs in 15 months.
authors: School of Nursing, Doisy College of Health Sciences, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri 63104, USA. tmurray4@slu.edu
authors: Teri A
authors: TA
authors: Murray
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005544:Forecasting; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D020407:Internet / Q000458:organization & administration; D008923:Missouri; D017145:Models, Educational; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000458:organization & administration; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013997:Time Factors; D014146:Training Support / Q000458:organization & administration