Faculty support for ESL nursing students: action plan for success.
Nursing students whose first language is not English have lower retention and NCLEX-RN pass rates. This review identifies four areas of difficulty and recommends strategies that can be employed by supportive faculty to assist these students and help ensure a more diverse nursing workforce to care for our increasingly diverse patient population.
Mercy College of Health Sciences, Des Moines, Iowa, USA. ehansen@mercydesmoines.org
Eileen
E
Hansen
Shirley
S
Beaver
D054521:Cultural Competency; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D019303:Multilingualism; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods*; D013192:Staff Development; D013338:Students, Nursing; D014481:United States