Preventing Nurse Shortage starting at University Education

Publication Date

Spring 3-30-2025

College

Gordon E. Inman College of Nursing

Department

Nursing, School of

Student Level

Undergraduate

SPARK Category

Knowledge

Faculty Advisor

Linda Wofford

SPARK Session

Linda Wofford; Gordon E. Inman College of Nursing Poster: Nurse as Leader 10:15-11:45 Poster/Gallery Session

Presentation Type

Poster

Summary

The United States is facing a significant nursing shortage due to factors such as an aging population requiring more healthcare services, high burnout rates among existing nurses, and a lack of sufficient nursing faculty to train new professionals. We believe that if universities can achieve higher nursing student retention rates, we can decrease the nursing shortage by increasing the number of new nurses in the field. We plan to do this by having nurses from varying specialties (ICU, OR, flight nurses) provide an informational session to Belmont University nursing students and provide an optional shadow shift for interested students. This meeting will entail the nurse's experience on this unit, the benefits of working on this unit, and ways to start in this unit after nursing school. We will evaluate our outcomes by determining the number of students who graduated pre/post informational sessions, as well as determine the retention rate of students pre/post informational sessions. To evaluate the effectiveness of our intervention and change project we would also like to include feedback from the students and guests to evaluate their experiences about the implemented program.

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