title: What's the ROI for resolving the nursing faculty shortage?
abstract: The nursing faculty shortage will have a fundamental impact on the ability to produce nurses. For most nursing schools and states, however, concerns about the relative merits of different solutions to the nursing faculty shortage are misplaced. Without significantly increased visibility and definition, accompanied by a clear public, private, and health care organization return on investment (ROI), proposing solutions to the nursing faculty shortage is at best premature and at worst irrelevant. There is simply too much competition for resources to expect that a vaguely defined and invisible problem with no rationale for increased investment will receive sufficient support from critical decision makers and constituencies. First must come problem definition, visibility, and ROI. Only then can the case be made for implementing solutions to the nursing faculty shortage.
authors.affiliation: Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence, Denver, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Karren
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kowalski
authors.forename: Brian M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Kelley
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D007449:Investments; D009726:Nurses / Q000600:supply & distribution; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce