Advanced Practice Nursing Education: Challenges and Strategies

Table 1

Challenges to effective APRN clinical education.

Internal challenges
High enrollments
Increasing demand for nurse educators
Noncompetitive educational salaries
Difficulties associated with tenure-track research positions
Proliferation of DNP programs
Increasing faculty workloads
Declining graduation from APRN programs
Difficulties accessing education in rural communities
Lack of APRN workforce diversity
External challenges
Limited number of clinical sites and preceptors
Competitive forces (APRNs teaching residents)
Concentration of educational programs in urban areas
Regulatory agency and specialty certification requirements
Limited national funding for clinical education research and preceptor compensation
Demographic mismatch between nursing and populations served
Gender politics and power relationships