title: A pilot program for limited english proficiency high school immigrant students.
abstract: Limited English proficiency immigrant students have a high risk of dropping out of high school, resulting in significantly restricted employment opportunities. At the same time, the nursing profession is desperately in need of increased ethnic diversity in the workforce to better serve its diverse patient population. Recognizing both of these situations, a group of nursing students from Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing created a pilot program to introduce a group of limited English proficiency immigrant students to the field of nursing.
authors.affiliation: Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. jbare23@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Jessica B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Bare
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002321:Career Choice; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005845:Georgia; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D019303:Multilingualism; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010865:Pilot Projects; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012073:Remedial Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D013332:Student Dropouts; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires