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The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), with support from The Elsevier Foundation, is piloting the Nurse Faculty Mentored Leadership Development (NFMLD) program. This initiative is focused on building and retaining the next generation of nurse faculty through mentored leadership development.
Research shows that new nurse faculty who have worked successfully with a mentor have higher job satisfaction and increased promotions and mobility than those without mentors. Mentored nurse faculty also are more productive in obtaining competitive grants, leading professional organizations and publishing.
"Administered by our International Leadership Institute using a successful mentoring model, this initiative will help alleviate the nurse faculty crisis by nurturing new nurse educators as they acclimate to the role within their institutions," said STTI CEO Patricia E. Thomson, EdD, RN, FAAN.
The 2010-11 program kicked off in April. Each program participant, selected in a competitive process, has designed a team-based project to improve nursing education. The implementation, evaluation and dissemination of the project will serve as a vehicle for the new faculty to develop leadership knowledge and skills.
Among the participants, from 16 states and 28 universities, are Joanna Guenther, PhD, FNP-C, RN, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, and mentor Keith Ellen Ragsdale, EdD, RN, Concordia University Texas, Anita Thigpen Perry School of Nursing, Austin
The two will work for the next 18 months through this intense and comprehensive leadership curriculum. Activities include a face-to-face meeting; online discussion forums; and regular, structured communication between and among scholars, mentors and expert faculty leaders.
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