title: Faculty role in retaining Hispanic nursing students.
abstract: Hispanics, the fastest-growing minority population in the United States, make up only 5% of the nursing workforce. To help eliminate health care disparities, recruiting and retaining Hispanic nursing students is a necessary step. This article discusses barriers that Hispanic students encounter and responsibilities of nursing faculty in retaining Hispanic students, and proposes the use of frameworks that enhance a new paradigm to encourage more inclusive teaching in a positive environment.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, USA. velezmmm@umdnj.edu
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vélez-McEvoy
mesh_terms: D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D013338:Students, Nursing; D016746:Transcultural Nursing