Finding Innovative Strategies to Enhance Adjunct Faculty Support and Retention.

Background: Nursing programs continue to use more adjunct faculty members to keep up with the demanding needs of the nursing workforce. Although various nursing programs use adjunct faculty, they differ in the available support and resources offered. A midwestern university offering postlicensure online nursing programs developed an adjunct teaching model to aid teaching requirements.

Preferred Instructional Methods of Millennial Nursing Students.

The continuing nursing shortage requires nurse educators to understand how students best learn to maximize student success and retention. Millennial generation students in a midwestern community college associate degree in nursing program were interviewed to determine which instructional methods they identified as aiding learning and which were possible barriers to their education. It was found that lectures and interactive questions enhanced student learning, and group work was the least effective learning strategy.