The Pennsylvania Nursing Workforce Coalition (PA-NWC), a program of the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC), is thrilled to announce its new collaboration with the Geisinger School of Nursing to address nursing faculty and instructor shortages by creating Nurse Education, Practice, Quality, and Retention Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academies (NEPQR-CFPAs). The collaborative is executing the program with funds awarded by the U.S Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), CDFA#93.359.

The purpose of the NEPQR-CFPA is to take steps to fill the faculty/instructor gap in schools of nursing and increase nursing workforce retention by leveraging staff nurses to participate as skilled preceptors and clinical instructors. The PA-NWC and Geisinger, alongside numerous academic and health system partners, are building academic-clinical-community partnerships that develop and implement comprehensive and self-guided nurse education training curricula. The project is focusing on HHS Region 3 (including Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.) to build a formal nurse education training curriculum to train clinical faculty and preceptors.