Metcalfe Sharon Elizabeth, Neubrander Judy
Associate Professor of Nursing, Program Director of NN-CAT, Western Carolina University, Asheville, NC 28804..
Director of Nursing, Western Carolina University, Asheville, NC 28803..
J Prof Nurs. 2016 Sep-Oct;32(5):377-82. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2016.01.010. Epub 2016 Jan 12.
In 2010, the Institute of Medicine made a recommendation in The Future of Nursing Report to diversify the student population of the health care professions in order to provide increasing minority providers to meet the culturally competent needs of the growing multicultural populations of the United States (Institute of Medicine, 2010). The Nursing Network and Careers and Technology Nurse Mentoring Program provides a nursing mentor to underrepresented ethnic minority and educationally disadvantaged students and a significant scholarship and stipend for tuition and monthly living expenses. Ethnically diverse and rural students have lifelong familial and geographical educational barriers that prevent them from succeeding. There are a plethora of major environmental and familial factors that need to be addressed by society for these students to be successful. These factors include improvement of county schools by financial support, improving the home environment through social supportive services, and implementing improved parent-child bonding with nurse family partnerships. Nursing faculty must embrace new approaches for increasing the number of ethnically diverse nursing providers through novel admission criteria and collaborative cohort peer-mentoring programs.
2010年，医学研究所（Institute of Medicine）在《护理的未来报告》（The Future of Nursing Report）中建议，使医疗保健行业的学生群体多样化，以便增加少数族裔从业者，满足美国日益增长的多元文化人口对具备文化胜任力护理服务的需求（医学研究所，2010年）。护理网络及职业与技术护士指导项目为代表性不足的少数族裔和教育处境不利的学生提供一名护理导师，并提供数额可观的奖学金以及学费和每月生活费用津贴。不同种族和农村地区的学生面临着终身的家庭和地域教育障碍，这些障碍阻碍他们取得成功。社会需要解决大量主要的环境和家庭因素，这些学生才能成功。这些因素包括通过财政支持改善乡村学校状况、通过社会支持服务改善家庭环境，以及通过护士与家庭伙伴关系加强亲子关系。护理教师必须采用新方法，通过新颖的录取标准和协作性同伴指导项目，增加不同种族护理从业者的数量。
