Eastern Shore/Western Shore
Faculty Initiative
Judith M. Jarosinski, PhD, RN, CNE
Tina P. Brown Reid, EdD, MSN
Lisa A. Seldomridge, PhD, RN
This work was supported by a Nurse Support II Grant from
the Maryland Higher Education Commission under the
auspices of HSCRC
Overall Goal
• Plan and implement a needs
assessment in partnership with selected
nursing programs representing
diversity in educational offerings,
geographic region, student body and
faculty.
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Purposes of ESWSFI
 Reviewing existing faculty staffing challenges
across Maryland by program level
 Investigate current efforts aimed at managing
staffing challenges in Maryland
 Explore additional solutions while managing all
data in a central location.
 Gain a broader understanding of regional
similarities and differences in the shortage of
nursing faculty and preceptors
 Build bridges for collaborative problem-solving
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Aspects of the Needs Assessment
 Identify participating schools
 Gather demographic information and
quantitative data
 Administrators who do staffing
 Collect qualitative data
 Administrators who do staffing
 Faculty with interest in faculty shortage and staffing
solutions
 Faculty who orient graduate student preceptors
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Timeline
 Invitation to participate-today!
 Confirmation of participant schools by Oct. 30,
2015
 Development of public website by Nov. 15, 2015
 Demographic/quantitative surveys-completion
by Dec. 20, 2015
 Administrator interviews by March 1, 2016
 Faculty focus groups by March 1, 2016
 Data analysis by April 30, 2016
 Recommendations by May 15, 2016
 Feedback on recommendations by June 15, 2016
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Project Participants & Roles
• Jeffrey Willey
– Project liaison & qualitative researcher
• Michele Bracken
– Focus group leader & qualitative
researcher
• Jennifer Schultz
– Project evaluator
• Salisbury University student worker
– [email protected]
• PIs
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Next Steps
 Consider another NSP-2 grant proposal to
implement ES-FAMI across the State
 Revise ES-FAMI materials to be relevant for
preceptors who work with graduate students
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