Increase nurse faculty salaries to reduce the nursing shortage.

ABSTRACT: Recruiting and retaining qualified nurse educators is vital to addressing the nursing shortage and ensuring the health and well-being of current nurses in our communities. However, low faculty salaries remain a major barrier to recruiting and retaining qualified nurse educators.

New strategies to combat workplace incivility and promote joy.

ABSTRACT: Eighty-five percent of nurses report incivility in healthcare. Promoting a culture of civility-from nursing school to the workplace-is vital to ensuring healthy learning and work environments and ultimately safe patient care. This article presents a nursing program's journey in addressing incivility among the nurse faculty and the results achieved.

Reflecting on two distinct leadership roles during the pandemic.

ABSTRACT: For more than a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented stress, anxiety, sadness, and fear, but it has also allowed people to reflect, learn, self-improve, and change. In this article, the author demonstrates how reflective practice enabled her to improve in two distinctly different leadership roles.

Showing the way with gracious leadership.

Like servant leaders, gracious leaders prioritize employee relationships in a way that also promotes optimal outcomes for both the patients and the healthcare organization. This article provides a mnemonic to describe the attributes of a gracious nurse leader.

Staying Faithful to Your Faith.

The author describes how treatment for a transgender patient was complicated, due to the healthcare facility's lack of staff training. After an education program was implemented, the author wrote an article about the need for training for LGBT care, then faced a quandary about submitting the article to a Christian or secular nursing journal. Through her college administrator's support, the author's commitment to living her faith in every arena was strengthened.

Student Perceptions of Spirituality and Spiritual Care.

Nurse educators must equip students with beginning skills of assessment, communication, and awareness of spiritual care. Barriers to spiritual care-lack of time or of space, inadequate training-reduce nurses' provision of spiritual care. Nursing students observe patient needs for spiritual care, but often are not skilled or comfortable offering spiritual care. This article relays observations of 28 senior nursing students about spirituality and spiritual care with implications for teaching.

Student Perspective Improves Spiritual Care Curriculum.

Spiritual nursing care is a fundamental aspect of care often unobserved during students' clinical experiences. A nursing student shares her disillusionment about the lack of spiritual care she observed during a clinical rotation. Her instructor used the negative experience to identify areas for curriculum improvement to develop and address the lack of spiritual nursing care education.