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For the past decade, health care organizations have been sounding the alarm regarding a shortage of nurses that threatens to cripple health care delivery in the United States with a projected shortfall of close to one million nurses by the year 2020. As the problem was analyzed, it was found that one of the drivers of the looming shortage of nurses was an even more challenging shortage of nursing faculty. Indeed, according to the Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), more than 40,000 qualified students were turned away from nursing programs in part because of a lack of faculty to teach them.

Advocacy organizations such as the National League for Nursing and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing have conducted studies regarding the causes of the nursing faculty shortages. The substantive findings have been that nursing faculty salaries lag far behind (sometimes 50% or more) what peers with similar qualifications would make in the clinical setting. This problem is compounded when one considers that often nurses graduating with an associate degree can earn more than the faculty who taught them. This results in fewer nurses pursuing the advanced degrees required for nursing faculty positions (

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