Changing the face of nursing faculty: minority faculty recruitment and retention.
Critical shortages in the nursing workforce pose life-and-death decisions for health care institutions. Similar shortages of nursing faculty, particularly nursing faculty with doctoral degrees, confront schools of nursing. Competition among health care institutions and schools of nursing for master's- and doctorally prepared nurses is fierce. Credentialed minority faculty are in even greater demand. Rising salaries and increasing opportunities outside of academia present significant barriers to schools of nursing seeking to recruit and retain minority nursing faculty. Challenges to increasing the number of minority nursing faculty surface very early in the pipeline and include competition among health professions and other disciplines for minority students. Successful long-term strategies to increase the number of minority nursing faculty must include strategies to attract higher numbers of minority students into baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral nursing programs. Several initiatives to increase minority student enrollment in the health professions are highlighted. Finally, strategies for recruiting, empowering, and retaining minority nursing faculty by schools of nursing are presented.
Stanley
Joan M
JM
American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC, USA. jstanley@aacn.nche.edu
Capers
Cynthia Flynn
CF
Berlin
Linda E
LE
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel / Q000208:ethnology; D002321:Career Choice; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States