Healthcare Workforce Summit

8 Address Wage Disparity and Compensation Issues

Tactics highlighted by attendees include: >> Increase compensation and/or subsidize wages for educators. ◆ Supplement salary by multiple fiduciaries. >> Eliminate the need to reduce salaries for those who go back to school or who are interested in teaching. ◆ Instead of dividing salary responsibilities between >> Institute loan forgiveness programs. >> Work with policymakers to create tax breaks for educators. >> Encourage employers to pay nursing students while they learn. Help them see how they will ultimately benefit. >> Offer tuition incentives to adjunct professors and college to advance educator’s own career. >> Provide monetary incentives to nurses interested in furthering their education. >> Compensate nurses for teaching when it’s part of a nursing masters curriculum. healthcare and academia where one domain takes on the entire burden, work together to distribute the burden in a way that makes it more doable.

The wage disparity for a nurse educator versus a nurse that practices in a clinical setting is a huge barrier to enticing qualified nurses into the educational realm.

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