title: Mentoring as the key to minority success in nursing education.
abstract: Though the number of minorities is steadily increasing in the United States, the number of minority nurses is not growing in equal proportion. Minority nursing students are often faced with barriers that prevent their success in rigorous nursing programs. MENTOR is a program that can be implemented into any nursing curriculum using a semester format. The purpose of the program is to provide ethnically diverse students with the support and resources they need to successfully graduate. The tools needed to implement a program such as MENTOR into a nursing curriculum is provided.
authors.affiliation: St. Vincent Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio, USA. Ncrooks@alumnitol.mercycollege.edu
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Crooks
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008611:Mentors; D008913:Minority Groups; D009729:Nursing; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce