Preparing clinically expert faculty educators: an academic partnership model.

To increase nursing education capacity in New Jersey, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) New Jersey Nursing Initiative (NJNI) awarded grants to prepare graduate nursing students to become clinically expert faculty. The purpose of this article was to describe the experiences of a collaborative partnership in preparing 14 scholars for the faculty role. The partnership developed two innovative models of preparing faculty with clinical expertise.

Increasing the linguistic competence of the nurse with limited English proficiency.

Teaching linguistic competence to nursing students educated in the United States but whose families are recent immigrants is a difficult task for nurse educators. Although students may easily learn the mechanics of a new language, the cultural differences must also be addressed. In the face of the current nursing shortage, it is critically important that strategies to improve linguistic competence be incorporated into curricular efforts.