Bridges to the Bacclaureate Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请提出了埃默里大学Nell Hodgson Woodruff护理学院（NHWSN）与格鲁吉亚周边学院（GPC）护理课程之间的学士学位（BttB）合作关系。该计划的重点是确定来自代表性不足的种族和少数民族群体的学生-在护理和护理科学方面代表性不足的群体-并通过副学士学位支持他们获得护理学士学位（BSN），并在埃默里护理博士课程或类似的研究密集型机构中从事护理科学职业。BttB旨在增加在GPC完成AS护理学位并进入NHWSN的BSN课程的代表性不足的学生人数;培养护理科学的技能和知识;以及社会化到护理科学的文化和专业，并继续攻读博士学位。BttB通过培养下一代护理科学家成为护理学校的教师来满足国家解决护理短缺问题的需求，他们既教授护理知识，又为改进实践创造证据。它还回应了国际移民组织呼吁护理领导与其他专业合作，制定创新的解决方案，以解决国家的医疗保健危机和持续存在的健康差距问题。BttB计划将包括五个要素：（1）招聘和入学;（2）研究曝光;（3）研究沉浸;（4）学术编程;（5）指导，建议和咨询。来自这两个机构的教师将参与选择GPC学生进入BttB计划在他们的第一个学期在GPC护理计划。研究圆桌会议和夏季和学年的研究沉浸式体验将加强GPC的研究环境，并使学生能够从概念和经验上了解护理科学。当学生转学到NHWSN并进入RN-BSN课程时，圆桌会议和沉浸式体验将继续进行，该课程专门针对他们之前的培训，并进一步沉浸在护理科学中。在NHWSN，BttB学生将在一个由大量终身教职和终身教职员工积极开展资助研究的环境中学习。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes a Bridges to the Baccalaureate (BttB) partnership between the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (NHWSN) at Emory University and the Nursing Program at Georgia Perimeter College (GPC). The program focuses on identifying students from underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups - groups who are underrepresented in nursing and nursing science as well - and supporting them through the associate degree to the baccalaureate in nursing (BSN) and on to careers in nursing science in the PhD program in Nursing at Emory or at similar research-intensive institutions. BttB aims to increase the number of underrepresented students who complete the AS degree in Nursing at GPC and enter the BSN program at NHWSN; who develop skills and knowledge in nursing science; and who are socialized into the culture and profession of nursing science and move forward to doctoral studies. BttB responds to national needs to address the nursing shortage by developing a next generation of nursing scientists to be faculty in schools of nursing who both teach and create the evidence for improved practice. It also addresses the IOM call for nursing leadership to work with other professions to develop innovative solutions to the nation's health care crisis and to the persistent problem of health disparities. The BttB program will consist of five elements; (1) recruitment and enrollment; (2) research exposure; (3) research immersion; (4) academic programming; and (5) mentoring, advising, and counseling. Faculty from both institutions will participate in selecting GPC students into the BttB program in their first semester in the GPC nursing program. Research roundtables and summer and school-year research immersion experiences will strengthen the environment of research at GPC and will enable students to learn about nursing science both conceptually and experientially. The roundtable and immersion experiences will continue when students transfer to NHWSN and enter an RN-BSN program that is specifically tailored to accommodate their prior training and to further immerse them in nursing science. At NHWSN, BttB students will be in an environment characterized by the active conduct of funded research by a large number of tenured and tenure track faculty.