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Welcome to Ignite

 

Hello, we are Andy and Heather!

 

We are passionate about encouraging community in nursing education and fostering connection, collaboration, and growth amongst nurse educator peers.

Please join us as we encourage YOU,

the professor, nurse manager, hospital-based nurse educator, charge nurse, or whatever awesome nursing leader that you are, to provide the most effective education around!

We are glad you are here,

Andy and Heather

Encouraging community in nursing education.

Through awareness and awakening, we engage in our best work.

Nursing needs the educator you were made to be.

Available in diverse styles,

we come to our profession 

with our own brands of 

creativity to ignite growth. 

Discover the possibilities of your strengths? Sure you can!

Nurse educators are visionaries.

Are you facilitating online, face-to-face, or hybrid learning?

Piece by piece, build up your presence and show your excitement in your work. When you come through the door each day, bring to work your aged patina. No matter where that is for you, your work is your craft.

Nursing Education Statistics

Percentage (rounded) of nursing programs that sought to hire new faculty

52

Percentage of nursing units that found it somewhat difficult to recruit and hire new nursing faculty

37

Percentage of associate degree granting institutions

17

Percentage of full-time tenured nurse educators

68

Percentage of public nursing schools

82

National League for Nursing Faculty Census Survey 2019

Top Challenges to Filling Educator Vacancies

Not enough qualified candidates. 34%

Not able to offer competitive salaries. 37%

Faculty jobs less attractive than others. 12%

Not enough budget lines available. 6%

 

Other difficulties. 11%

National League for Nursing Faculty Census Survey 2019

"The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting" Plutarch

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