Nurse educators key to combating nurse shortage
ScrubsMag.com takes a look at the link between the lack of nursing instructors and the nursing shortage.
ScrubsMag.com takes a look at the link between the lack of nursing instructors and the nursing shortage.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics 2014 report projects a nursing shortage through 2024. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) relates that at least part of the nursing shortage is related to a lack of qualified nurse educators.
First and foremost, all nurses are educators. Nurses are continually challenged to take difficult and sometimes life-saving information and translate for optimal patient understanding and compliance. Nurses instruct on medications, procedures, appointments, wound care, hygiene, safety and everything in between.
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