AARP, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on June 26 convened a summit of multistakeholder groups to identify solutions to the nurse faculty shortage that is resulting in nursing schools turning away thousands of qualified nursing candidates each year. The Nursing Education Capacity Summit in Washington, D.C., included 18 state teams that came together to share best practices to expand nursing education and to foster action in four key areas, including increasing faculty capacity and diversity, and education redesign.
A white paper, Blowing Open the Bottleneck: Designing New Approaches to Increase Nurse Education Capacity, was released at the summit. The paper highlights programs that are making progress in addressing both shortage and education capacity problems in nursing. Download the paper.
