The demands of the healthcare industry require a highly-qualified nursing workforce. Yet there is a global shortage of nurses. The reasons for this are multifactorial, but include:
- an ageing workforce
- heavy workloads
- growing disillusionment in the nursing profession (McAllister and Flynn, 2016; Buchan and Catton, 2023)
There is a need to recruit and retain a new generation of nursing students if the NHS is to meet its current workforce demands. Nurse educators are key to supporting the transition from nursing student to newly registered nurse. The ability to recruit nursing students is in part constrained by the lack of nurse educators (Brower et al, 2022; Seldomridge et al, 2023). The transition from clinical nurse to nurse educator is one that lacks definition and calls for a deeper exploration (Brower et al, 2022). This article provides an overview of the nurse educator role, and the ways in which nurses can transition
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