title: California's minority majority and the White face of nursing.
abstract: Of the 33 million people in California, the nation's most populous state, minority groups now constitute the majority of the population. Many sources predict that by 2060, the entire country will mirror the diversity of California today. Like the rest of the country, California is experiencing a critical shortage of nurses that is predicted to increase in the coming years, and California's nursing workforce does not represent the racial and ethnic diversity of the state's population as a whole. If the nursing profession is to thrive in the coming years, educators and leaders must create a way to embrace people from diverse ethnicities and cultures. The purposes of this article are to determine whether ethnic minority groups have different success rates in California nursing programs, whether nursing programs with high percentages of diverse students have differing success rates, and to describe the institutional predictors of on-time completion rates, attrition rates, and NCLEX-RN first-time pass rates in California community colleges.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, 94143-0608, USA. jean.ann.seago@nursing.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Jean Ann
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Seago
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spetz
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel / Q000208:ethnology; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002140:California; D002321:Career Choice; D019352:Censuses; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004507:Education, Nursing, Associate / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008008:Licensure, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010560:Personnel Selection; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012073:Remedial Teaching / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012570:School Admission Criteria; D012938:Social Perception; D013332:Student Dropouts / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data