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The shift from clinical practice to academic role will be a start of more challenges. The new Clinical Instructor of Sigma Theta Tau International had mentored a Leadership Development Program which aims to support beginner nurse educators as they learn the art of teaching and develop successful and rewarding faculty careers. It was, a professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Nursing in Newark. Forrester is also a professor in Residence and Interdisciplinary Health Research Consultant at Morristown (N.J.) Memorial Hospital and an expert faculty member for the Nurse Faculty Mentored Leadership Development Program. A $200,000 grant was given to Sigma Theta Tau International Foundation for Nursing by Elsevier Foundation (a publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services). The objective is to create a leadership development program to help build the next generation of nurse faculty. Sigma Theta Tau International Leadership Institute, the Honor Society of Nursing, will govern the pilot program. It focuses on improving apprentice educator retention. Cynthia Vlasich, RN, Director of Education and Leadership for Sigma Theta Tau, said that they have big shortage of nurse faculty. The program will to give support to early career nurse faculty. According to the research of Sigma Theta Tau, new faculty who have worked effectively with a mentor resulted to higher job satisfaction, increased promotions and mobility, obtained competitive grants, lead professional organizations, and published academic books and journal articles. Those nurses with master's degree or doctor’s degrees or currently enrolled in doctoral programs may apply from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 to be one of the expected 16 faculty scholar, or mentee positions. The program advisory group according to Forrester includes 8 nurses from Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, South Africa, and U.S. Seven experts throughout North America were selected by Nursing Honor Society to develop the curriculum and support the teams.
The faculty being selected are: - Judy Anderson, RN, PhD, CNE, of Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wis
- Carol J. Huston, RN, MSN, DPA, FAAN, of California State University in Chico
- Ainslee Nibert, PhD, MSN, BSN of Elsevier in Houston
- Elizabeth Peter, RN, PhD, of the University of Toronto in Canada
- Frances Vlasses, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, of Loyola University in Chicago
- Carol Winters-Moorhead, RN, PhD, CNE, of East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.
- Anthony “Tony” Forrester, RN, PhD, ANEF, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Nursing in Newark
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