guidance to enact change and boost the visibility of nursing are all duties that could be used to support these important roles of the nurse educator (2012). Unfortunately, a review of the evidence-based strategies used to alleviate the nursing faculty shortage and the key issues surrounding it revealed very few articles actually detailing implementation and evaluation approaches that should be used in an effort to promote effective change and alleviate the faculty shortage (Allan & Aldebron, 2008). What researchers did find in a review of the literature was characterized into the following categories of recommendations for future change: advocacy, educational partnerships, academic innovation, and external funding. Advocacy and academic innovation recommendations on the part of the nurse educator coupled with external funding are further described in the following sections in order to promote growth of the nurse educator role while the previously mentioned demands on the role persist. Advocacy Recommendations Recommendations for advocacy efforts include approaches that are designed to gain support and backing for the increase of nurse educators and educational capacity through community awareness (Allan & Aldebron, 2008). Advocacy efforts can include those by either mass media or workforce data and policy. Three prominent examples of media campaigns used to elicit interest in nursing and careers in academia include: Campaign for Nursing’s Future, Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow, and the Center for Nursing Advocacy (2008). Results of the Campaign for Nursing’s Future indicated a promotion of consciousness and generation of progressive responses, according to Buerhaus and Donelan (2006). In addition, recruitment materials including posters, brochures, pins, website development, videos, and fundraising campaigns for faculty fellowships and institutional grants have previously been successful at promoting the faculty profession and should continue to be utilized (2006).
guidance to enact change and boost the visibility of nursing are all duties that could be used to support these important roles of the nurse educator (2012). Unfortunately, a review of the evidence-based strategies used to alleviate the nursing faculty shortage and the key issues surrounding it revealed very few articles actually detailing implementation and evaluation approaches that should be used in an effort to promote effective change and alleviate the faculty shortage (Allan & Aldebron, 2008). What researchers did find in a review of the literature was characterized into the following categories of recommendations for future change: advocacy, educational partnerships, academic innovation, and external funding. Advocacy and academic innovation recommendations on the part of the nurse educator coupled with external funding are further described in the following sections in order to promote growth of the nurse educator role while the previously mentioned demands on the role persist. Advocacy Recommendations Recommendations for advocacy efforts include approaches that are designed to gain support and backing for the increase of nurse educators and educational capacity through community awareness (Allan & Aldebron, 2008). Advocacy efforts can include those by either mass media or workforce data and policy. Three prominent examples of media campaigns used to elicit interest in nursing and careers in academia include: Campaign for Nursing’s Future, Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow, and the Center for Nursing Advocacy (2008). Results of the Campaign for Nursing’s Future indicated a promotion of consciousness and generation of progressive responses, according to Buerhaus and Donelan (2006). In addition, recruitment materials including posters, brochures, pins, website development, videos, and fundraising campaigns for faculty fellowships and institutional grants have previously been successful at promoting the faculty profession and should continue to be utilized (2006).