Vinson, Krystle RenaMurray, Mary2025-07-232025-07-232025-07-23http://hdl.handle.net/10342/14228BACKGROUND: This study aimed to improve nursing clinical faculty’s knowledge, support, and comfort level in facilitating pre-licensure students in the clinical setting by evaluating fac-ulty’s knowledge gaps and developing educational modules to improve their expertise, satisfac-tion, and retention. METHOD: A clinical faculty orientation was designed and implemented, and pre- and post-surveys were used to compare faculty satisfaction, efficacy, and retention. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected via the Qualtrics platform. RESULTS: Eight successful clinical faculty members completed the modules, both pre- and post-surveys. CONCLUSION: Through innovative assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation, academic recruitment and retention of clinical faculty can improve. This will help address clin-ical faculty shortages and increase clinical faculty quality and student and patient outcomes.en-USclinical, orientation, faculty, self-efficacy, satisfaction, retentionDNP Scholarly Project