{"id":19160,"date":"2025-12-11T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=19160"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:16:17","slug":"delaware-efforts-to-ease-the-nursing-faculty-shortage-highlight-wilmus-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/11\/delaware-efforts-to-ease-the-nursing-faculty-shortage-highlight-wilmus-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Efforts to Ease the Nursing Faculty Shortage Highlight WilmU\u2019s Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column19160_e972c6-ee > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column19160_e972c6-ee > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column19160_e972c6-ee > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column19160_e972c6-ee > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column19160_e972c6-ee > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column19160_e972c6-ee > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column19160_e972c6-ee > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column19160_e972c6-ee{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column19160_e972c6-ee > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column19160_e972c6-ee > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column19160_e972c6-ee\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p>The federal government estimates that more than 193,000 nurses will be needed to enter the job market through 2032 to keep up with growing demands on the healthcare system. But who will educate the nurses of tomorrow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilmington University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmu.edu\/health\/nursing.aspx\">RN to BSN <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmu.edu\/health\/nursing-leadership-master.aspx\">MSN in Nursing Leadership Program<\/a> Chair <strong>Dr. Lisa Drews<\/strong> and colleagues published \u201cAddressing the Nursing Faculty Shortage&#8221; in the Delaware Nurses Association Reporter. The authors reported that more than one-third of nursing educators are 60 or older, with many planning to retire. More than 65,000 qualified applicants were turned away from nursing programs in 2023 because of faculty shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the article, Dr. Drews and her coauthors noted efforts in Delaware to address the shortage. WilmU is enhancing practice readiness for nursing educators by integrating the National League for Nursing Core Competencies into its MSN Nursing Leadership program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, WilmU\u2019s collaboration with practitioners is fueling a professional development concentration to support nurse educators who work within health care systems. WilmU also offers a Nurse Educator option in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmu.edu\/health\/nursing-leadership-certificate.aspx\">Nurse Leadership Graduate Certificate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to robust education, Dr. Drews and her coauthors suggested financial incentives for nurses to enter academia and streamlined pathways from patient care to the classroom.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government estimates that more than 193,000 nurses will be needed to enter the job market through 2032 to keep up with growing demands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,1054,14,15],"class_list":["post-19160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-nursing-and-health-sciences","tag-health-and-nursing-degrees","tag-wilmington-university","tag-wilmu"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"ACADEMIC NEWS"}],"post_tag":[{"value":8,"label":"College of Nursing and Health Sciences"},{"value":1054,"label":"Health and Nursing Degrees"},{"value":14,"label":"Wilmington University"},{"value":15,"label":"WilmU"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nursing-faculty-shortage-480x480.jpg",480,480,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Mckayla Imperatrice","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/mckayla\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","slug":"academic-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":559,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":460,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":460,"category_description":"","cat_name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","category_nicename":"academic-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":8,"name":"College of Nursing and Health Sciences","slug":"college-of-nursing-and-health-sciences","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":565,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":110,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1054,"name":"Health and Nursing Degrees","slug":"health-and-nursing-degrees","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1611,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":14,"name":"Wilmington University","slug":"wilmington-university","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":571,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":357,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":15,"name":"WilmU","slug":"wilmu","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":572,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":291,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19168,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19160\/revisions\/19168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}