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From Turnover to Tenure: One Program's Efforts to Create Faculty Longevity in Nurse Anesthesia Education
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The bottom line
When one nurse anesthesia program addressed salary gaps and inflexibility with concrete organizational fixes — flexible scheduling, lighter teaching loads, wellness programming — faculty attrition improved. The practical lesson for education leaders is that faculty retention responds to the same structural levers as clinical retention. As a single-program before-after account, it is a worked example, not proof the fixes generalize.
What the source found
Case report on nurse anesthesia education program faculty turnover; documents how salary disparities and limited flexibility drove attrition; describes organizational fixes (flexible scheduling, reduced teaching loads, wellness programming) to improve faculty longevity.
Limitations and applicability
Single-program case report; limited generalizability; before-after design without control.
Population and setting
Nurse anesthesia faculty CRNAs
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About this evidence
Research question / practical issue
How does this source inform Retention and the Anesthesia Workforce and Evidence-Based Wellness for the population it studied?
Study design, evidence tier, and source class
Peer Reviewed Case Report · primary source · evidence tier 2
Source type: Peer Reviewed Case Report · primary · Evidence tier 2
Topics: Retention and the Anesthesia Workforce, Evidence-Based Wellness
Audience: CRNAs, Department Leaders, Wellness Leaders