Goals of the New Jersey Nursing Initiative Faculty Preparation Program
The New Jersey Nursing Initiative Faculty Preparation Program is awarding a total of five grants to New Jersey master’s and doctoral level nursing programs and collaboratives. These programs will produce at least 46 new nurse faculty committed to working in the state. The participating institutions will:
Enhance Curriculum
- Develop, implement and evaluate an education curriculum that integrates education and faculty preparation into the nursing clinical masters-level and doctoral programs to prepare nurses with advanced clinical expertise as faculty/educators.
Create Opportunities
- Recruit, select, enroll and support five to 12 full-time graduate and/or doctoral students per grant as RWJF New Jersey Nursing Scholars during the program's duration.
- Facilitate Scholars’ progress through the curriculum to ensure that they complete their educational program in a timely manner, given the nursing program's requirements.
- Provide the Scholars with mentoring and acculturation activities to help them prepare for nurse faculty roles.
Strengthen the Education System
- Create a sustainability plan for integrating the new faculty preparation components into the permanent graduate curriculum.
- Upon graduation, provide Scholars with the opportunity to receive generous incentives for serving as full time faculty members in New Jersey based nursing programs, helping to educate the next generation of the state’s nursing workforce.
Share Information
- Disseminate the curricula development pilot results through publications and presentations so that programs across the country can learn and replicate successes.