Becker's Healthcare March 12, 2025
Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System is embracing a shared faculty model to boost interest in nurse educator roles.
The health system has partnered with Huntsville, Texas-based Sam Houston State University and Austin-based University of Texas on a hybrid model in which nurses can split their time between bedside clinical care and teaching, working two days a week on their unit and another day as a faculty member.
“We’re having a lot of success in this space and are actually looking to grow this,” Bryan Sisk, DNP, RN, senior vice president and chief nursing executive at Memorial Hermann, told Becker’s.
The health system recently completed its first semester using the shared faculty model with Sam Houston and plans...