Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education program

Abstract

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education is a program that was created to support evaluations of interventions that expand teaching capacity or promote faculty recruitment and retention in nursing schools. The program's focus is on increasing the number of nursing school graduates by evaluating strategies that address the nurse faculty shortage.

The objectives of the program are: (1) Develop and disseminate evidence of the effectiveness of interventions in achieving these ends; (2) Facilitate replication of successful strategies in varied settings across the country; and (3) Assemble benchmark measures of key variables associated with the faculty shortage so that individual nursing schools can compare their status to national norms.

The program is directed by Michael Yedidia, M.P.H., Ph.D., Research Professor at the Rutgers University Center for State Health Policy.

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