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Shortage of Nursing Educators

In the United States, the nursing profession faces another challenge aside from the issue of health care shortage in the medical institution. This challenge is the fluctuation rate of nursing faculty personnel. It has been observed that the population rate of professors or teachers in the nursing schools in the United States are already declining. The observation result was based on the research and statistical result conducted by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. There are several reasons lies behind the decline of population rate of nursing educators in the different nursing schools but the main reason is financial aspect. Financial aspect is the main core why there only few nurses who took the opportunity to be employed as educators. One of this is the lower rate of compensation that the nursing schools are offering. In that situation nurses will usually take the opportunity to be employed to the medical institution rather pursuing a teaching field in the nursing school.

Pursuing of becoming a nurse educator requires lots of factors to consider especially the financial capacity. Since, nursing schools only accepts nursing educators who undergone a master’s or doctoral degree of nursing program.

Acquiring a higher education of nursing field is very much expensive so those nurses’ individuals will just usually; pursue their nursing job in medical institution rather than going to nursing school. No wonder that there only few nurses want to pursue a career.

As well, despite of the low income offering of nursing teaching career, there are also nurses who took the opportunity to serve their fellow nurse by becoming a nursing educator.

Just like the case of 27 years old Sarah Davis. She emphasizes the nursing career builder to several nursing students by obtaining two careers in her life. In which, she become a old instructional staff at the University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh and at the same time practices its nursing profession in one of the medical institution in the Unites States. Also, she continues to pursue her higher education in one of the prestigious nursing school.

It is quite clear the Sarah Davis takes her profession seriously because she has seen the needs and importance of nursing educators in the society. It’s a challenge to the individuals who took up a nursing degree to make the best in their profession. As well, it’s also a great challenge to the government and educational institution to take the importance about the welfare of nursing educators especially now there population rate are declining.

Since, the nursing educators are the main core in producing more nurses in the society especially nowadays; nursing profession is facing great challenges. It’s time to strengthen their foundation by focusing their career building resources and as well, consider the needs of nursing educators such as their compensation and benefits.

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