Shifting the clinical teaching paradigm in undergraduate nursing education to address the nursing faculty shortage.
To address the faculty shortage problem, schools of nursing are reexamining how they provide clinical education to undergraduate students to find ways to use faculty resources more efficiently and to maintain student enrollment. We describe a unique clinical teaching model implemented at the New York University College of Nursing. The new model currently being evaluated shifts from the traditional clinical education model, in which all clinical education is in a hospital or agency setting, to a model that substitutes high-fidelity human patient simulation for up to half of the clinical education experience. This article describes the clinical teaching model and its effects on nurse faculty capacity.
New York University, College of Nursing, New York, New York 10003, USA. Hila.Richardson@nyu.edu
Hila
H
Richardson
Mattia J
MJ
Gilmartin
Terry
T
Fulmer
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