PA Nurse Educators Needed

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While I'm sure that most of you know this, the nursing shortage is going to get worse due to the lack of nurse educators. In Pennsylvania, there is an organization trying to assist the shortage from the top down. They are encouraging current nurses to continue their education and become nursing teachers. They are offering several affordable programs to help you get your nursing degree.

If you're a PA nurse interested in staying in your chosen profession but making a change, check out this website and see if there is a program for you.

http://www.futuresinnursing.org/aid/special_programs_educators.shtml

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Specializes in Hospice, Critical Care.

I'd love to get my MSN so I can teach. It's just that I have triplet daughters entering college this fall and i can't afford sending three kids to college and myself at the same time. :( And I'm in PA. My former school has said they'd hire me but....need the degree.

If I'm reading that site correctly, there's nothing I can do anyway. It's up to the nursing schools to apply for the grants, not the student.

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I would check out the link and find out if you qualify for a grant or scholarship. The PHEF understands the need for nursing educators and are trying to make money as accessible as possible.

Have you looked at that site to find out if you qualify for grant money? It's not completely up to the schools to give out the grants.

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Specializes in Hospice, Critical Care.

I checked it out briefly tonight and saw that it was for schools to apply for grants and scholarship money. I haven't done a recent in-depth search of the site. A year or so ago, I did a search for my daughter who wants to go into nursing and I couldn't find anything for her.

But that was a year ago. i haven't tried since. They didn't make it easy to find, if I remember correctly. I just got links to links to links...

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Specializes in Hospice, Critical Care.

"The Graduate Nurse Education Grant Program awards scholarship funds to graduate nursing schools within Pennsylvania. "

"The Pennsylvania Higher Education Foundation (PHEF), in cooperation with the Leadership Council of the Pennsylvania Center for Health Careers, created the Nurse Faculty Lines Program to provide a new source of financial support for non-profit, tax exempt schools of nursing, and ultimately for students, in Pennsylvania."

Links to PHEAA site: My daughters looked into PHEAA. Didn't get anything from them (oh, i think one of my girls got a $3000 LOAN for the year....going to Penn State, that doesn't do a heck of a lot).

The scholarship search is directed at high school students.

Eh, at this point, I start to give up....links to links to links...and nothing concrete provide.

Thanks for the attempt, though. It's a great idea; it's just not readily available information.

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