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Diversity Initiatives
Diversity in Nursing Education
The need is clear for nurse educators and future nursing professionals to become significantly more diverse and representative of the populations they serve. While all minorities together compromise 30 percent of the population, they remain under-represented in nursing, accounting for only 12 percent of the nation's nurses. According to the 2004 Sullivan Commission Report, similar disparities exist in the number of under-represented minority faculty members within nursing education.
Research has indicated that access to health care services and patient outcomes can be significantly improved when patients have health care providers that are more like them ethnically and culturally. However, the growing disparity in under-represented minorities among faculty members and students in the health professions make those outcomes unlikely. Therefore, health professions are being called upon to recruit, mentor, and retain underrepresented minority faculty and students to help eliminate health disparities and meet the goals of a healthier population though culturally sensitive, patient-centered care.
In 2007, the NLN Foundation was proud to award its’ first minority faculty scholarships supporting minority nurses pursuing advanced degrees in preparation for a faculty career. The Foundation is currently working to raise more funds to offer similar awards in 2009.
The NLN Foundation is pleased to honor the accomplishments of
individual nurse faculty, schools of nursing and other organizations
that have made significant contributions to the recruitment and
retention of minority nurse faculty and to the field of nursing education.
Please click here to read Profiles in Diversity and learn more about these exemplary people and programs.
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