Pathway to nursing for urban core youth.
The issue of diversity in the workforce as one component of a nursing workforce shortage is a growing problem. Underrepresentation of minority nurses in clinical settings is also suspected to play a role in low patient satisfaction with health care. After holding a focus group of local high school students and their parents, a school of nursing located in an urban core developed an outreach program to help increase the enrollment of students from the urban core, and to help assure that they are prepared in every way to persist to graduation. This intervention program is described in this article.
Manney
Ronalda
R
School of Nursing, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA. manneyr@umkc.edu
Fonza-Thomason
Marjorie A
MA
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