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Community Outreach
Many community college nursing programs have high dropout rates, and retaining students of color can be particularly challenging. Here’s what some schools are doing to help increase their minority students’ chances for success.
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Save Big on Your Nursing Textbooks
Our textbook search engine scours the Web for the best deal on any textbook. Save hundreds of dollars this semester by comparing prices across campus booksellers nationwide.
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Apply for the 2010 Minority Nurse Scholarship Program
At Minority Nurse, we believe the baccalaureate is the degree that opens the most doors of opportunity for nurses of color. That’s why we offer an annual scholarship program to help outstanding students complete their studies leading to a BSN degree.
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Historically Black Nursing Schools: Yesterday and Today
Back in the days when segregation was the law of the land, they opened
doors of educational opportunity that produced generations of distinguished
African American nurses. Today, HBCU nursing programs are building on
that legacy to prepare the black nursing leaders of the 21st century
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Mentoring African American Nursing Students: A Holistic Approach
Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community of nurturing, empowering nurse mentors to recruit and retain black students in baccalaureate nursing programs.
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Dr. Nurse
As nursing schools nationwide focus their energies on increasing minority enrollment in doctoral programs, there’s never been a better time to advance your career by earning a PhD.
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Nursing School Enrollments Continue to Decline—But at a Slower Rate
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Mentors to the Max
When it comes to recruiting, developing and retaining American Indian nursing students, mentor programs can make all the difference in the world.
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Winning the Grad School Game
Choosing a graduate nursing program can be a daunting experience. Here’s how to find the program that’s right for you—and maximize your chances of getting in.
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Be Prepared
Recruiting minority nursing faculty is a two-way street: Both schools and potential candidates must be fully up to the challenge.
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Passing With Flying Colors
When developing multicultural nursing school curricula, don’t overlook the need for culturally sensitive testing
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Old Enough to Learn Better
More minority students are entering nursing school later in life—but both students and educators agree that their age is an asset, not a liability
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Reach Out, We’ll Be There
From financial aid and mentors to more accessible classrooms, nursing schools are using creative strategies to attract—and keep—minority students
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Coming Together to Succeed
Support groups enhance the academic and career readiness of minority nursing students
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Mixed Messages
Are nursing programs doing enough to make minority students feel welcome?
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Leveling the Playing Field for Tribal Colleges
Many of the nation’s 32 TCUs are underbudgeted, receive no state funding and are struggling to meet their operating costs.
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Internship Japanese Style
An international nursing student gets a rare chance to do her senior-year clinical observation with a famous doctor from her homeland--and learns lessons for a lifetime.
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Opening Doors
By adding more flexibility, convenience and support services to their programs, nursing schools are taking bold steps to make it easier for minority nurses to go back to school
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UIC Nursing School Brings AIDS Education to Malawi
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to launch an unusual AIDS prevention community outreach project—unusual because the communities are located in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in Africa.
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FIU Devotes its 20th Anniversary Year to Increasing Diversity in Nursing
The year 2002 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of Florida International University (FIU) School of Nursing in Miami. But instead of celebrating this milestone year by blowing out candles and partying, the school has embarked on an ambitious, multifaceted year-long campaign to address South Florida’s severe nursing shortage—the worst in over 10 years—and to increase the representation of minorities in the region’s nursing workforce to better reflect the cultural diversity of its patient population.
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