Leveraging a Successful Faculty Practice Model to Recruit and Retain Early-Career Nurse Faculty.

BACKGROUND: The shortage of nursing faculty is well documented as are the challenges of attracting and retaining early-career faculty, in part, due to difficulties transitioning expert clinicians into faculty roles. PROBLEM: There is little guidance in the literature describing successful formal transition models. APPROACH: An urban College of Nursing Faculty Practice (CON FP) underwent an operational redesign beginning in 2014, resulting in an intentional success: a pipeline for attracting and developing early-career faculty. This article describes how the CON FP leverages faculty practice to develop early-career faculty. OUTCOMES: Across a 6-year time span, at least 20 early-career CON FP clinicians have transitioned to full-time faculty roles. In addition, CON FP clinicians provide more than 75 000 direct care nursing services and support more than 25 000 student clinical and project hours annually. CONCLUSIONS: We offer this early-career faculty practice pipeline model as a solution for attracting and growing a contemporary nursing faculty workforce.

Implementation of an Isolation Shelter for Individuals with COVID 19 Experiencing Homelessness.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on non-sheltered homeless and housing-insecure individuals. This report details the development of a Chicago-based isolation shelter designed for people experiencing homelessness and recovering from COVID-19. The model is informative concerning the rapid development of services for people marginalized by the health care system.