Background: The United States faces a national short-age of nurse educators who need more educational prepa-ration to successfully transition into an academic setting. A professional learning community (PLC), using the Na-tional League for Nursing certified nurse educator (CNE) core competencies, offers an innovative way to meet the learning needs of nurse educators. Method: A qualitative descriptive design was used to summarize the experiences of the faculty members who participated in the CNE PLC. Results: The following five themes were discovered: aspi-rations for involvement, significance of learning in a com-munity, value of the CNE core competencies, challenges to participation, and value of engagement. Conclusion: A PLC is an effective way to meet the professional needs of faculty in the academic and clinical settings by embracing the notion that learning occurs through interaction with others. This project expands beyond the conventional new faculty onboarding workshops, which tend to be unidirec-tional and focused on information delivery. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2023;54(7):322-326.
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