UCLA/CDU Partnership for Enhancing Diversity of Nurses with Research Careers

描述(由申请人提供)：来自代表不足的少数群体(URMG)的个人的健康差距继续困扰着美国人口。这一问题的根源是多方面和复杂的，但非常相关的是，在卫生职业劳动力中缺乏来自URMG的个人，劳动力的族裔/种族构成方面的严重差异在护理行业尤为明显。2008年NSSRN的调查显示，32.1%的黑人/非裔美国护士和39.4%的拉丁裔护士拥有学士学位；在所有种族/民族的总和中，只有11.4%拥有包括博士在内的研究生学位。这种状态是在美国人口老龄化和种族更加多样化的时候存在的。鉴于这种可怕的情况，我们建议加强加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)护理学院和查尔斯·R·德鲁医学与科学大学(CDU)之间的现有关系，该大学是历史上的黑人研究生院和西班牙裔服务机构，目的是制定和实施个人和机构活动的综合计划，为城市大学护理学院的硕士学生提供无缝过渡到博士教育的准备。这个项目的长期目标是增加那些准备从事护理研究职业生涯的人的种族/种族多样性，这些人专注于关于老年人(45岁以上)的研究，方法是：(1)通过有组织的发展活动，增加CDU Son的硕士学生和教职员工对科学事业的参与；(2)丰富CDU Son的研究课程提供和科学环境，为硕士学生无缝过渡到博士教育做准备；以及(3)通过促进加州大学洛杉矶分校和CDU教师之间的科学交流和学生招生的系统，促进学生进入UCLA Son。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Health disparities for individuals from under-represented minority groups (URMGs) continue to plague the US population. The roots of this problem are many and complex, but of great relevance is the dearth of individuals from URMGs in the health professions workforce, with serious disparities in the ethnic/racial composition of the workforce being particularly pronounced in nursing. The 2008 NSSRN survey showed 32.1% of Black/African American nurses and 39.4% of Latino nurses had baccalaureate degrees; for all racial/ethnic groups combined, only 11.4% had graduate degrees including PhDs. This state exists at a time when the US population is becoming older and more ethnically diverse. Given this dire state of affairs, we are proposing to enhance an existing relationship between the Schools of Nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU), an Historically Black Graduate Institution and Hispanic Serving Institution, for the purpose developing and implementing an integrated plan of individual and institutional activities to prepare masters students from URMGs to make a seamless transition to doctoral education. The long term goal of this project is to increase the ethnic/racial diversity of those prepared to pursue research careers in nursing focusing on research about aging adults (45+ years) by (1) increasing involvement of master's students and faculty at CDU SON in the scientific enterprise through structured development activities; (2) enriching the research course offerings and scientific environment at CDU SON to prepare master's students to seamlessly transition to doctoral education; and (3) facilitating student advancement to the UCLA SON via systems that facilitate student enrollment and scientific exchange between faculty at UCLA and CDU.