Moving over to higher education from clinical practice is a big challenge. We have all been there! 

Student cohorts are increasing in size to meet the workforce demand and naturally, this means the sector is recruiting more new nursing academics to help deliver education programmes.

Recruitment and Attrition is key to ensuring we can deliver high-quality nursing education with a well-supported and thriving workforce. The support offered across HEI’s will be very different for new nursing academia’s and we can all learn and share experiences and practices.

At times recruitment can be hard, it isn’t always a career progression that is thought of in clinical practice. There is more that can be done to enhance workforce planning.

During this tweetchat we'll be working through the following questions:

• What attracted you to the role and how have you or did you find the move?
• What support do you have in place for new academics joining your institutions? 
• How can we enhance recruitment into the nursing academic role?
• What tips do you have for someone starting out as a new nursing academic or thinking about making the transition from clinical practice?
  

With thanks to @Helenski17 for composing this #WeNurseAcademins chat.

If you've not joined a tweetchat before here's how:

Using a hashtag (#) like #WeNurseAcademics allows us to use a Twitter feature that shows everyone the tweets that contain it, this allows us to chat with people that we don't follow, yet, enabling the ability for us to chat together on Twitter.

1. To see the chat click (or search) for #WeNurseAcademics on Twitter
2. Look out for questions and others' responses that interest you
3. To join in, add #WeNurseAcademics to your tweets

Do join in, your views, ideas and shared experience adds real value to others on the chat.