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

描述（由申请人提供）：来自代表性不足的少数群体（URMG）的个人的健康差异继续困扰着美国人口。这一问题的根源是多方面和复杂的，但与此密切相关的是，保健专业劳动力中缺乏来自城市弱势群体的个人，劳动力的族裔/种族组成方面的严重差异在护理方面尤其明显。2008年NSSRN的调查显示，32.1%的黑人/非洲裔美国护士和39.4%的拉丁裔护士拥有学士学位;对于所有种族/族裔群体，只有11.4%的人拥有研究生学位，包括博士学位。这种状态存在于美国人口老龄化和种族多样化的时代。鉴于这一可怕的事态，我们建议加强加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）和查尔斯·R.医学和科学的德鲁大学（CDU），一个历史上黑色的研究生机构和西班牙裔服务机构，为目的开发和实施个人和机构活动的综合计划，准备从URMG硕士生进行无缝过渡到博士教育。该项目的长期目标是增加那些准备从事护理研究职业的人的种族/种族多样性，重点是老年人的研究（45年以上）通过（1）通过结构化的发展活动，增加CDU SON的硕士生和教师在科学企业中的参与;（2）丰富CDU SON的研究课程和科学环境，为硕士生无缝过渡到博士教育做好准备;以及（3）通过促进学生入学和UCLA与CDU教师之间的科学交流的系统，促进学生进入UCLA SON。 公共卫生相关性：尽管努力遏制，但健康差距仍然存在。鼓励更多样化、代表性不足的少数民族个人在护理等卫生保健领域接受博士教育，是减少健康差距的一种有据可查的方法。该申请建议加州大学洛杉矶和查尔斯德鲁大学之间的合作，以提供所需的支持和教育活动，以准备在博士水平，谁会问相关的研究问题，并开发科学，最终将减少健康差距更多样化的护理队伍。

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. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Health disparities persist despite efforts to curb them. Encouraging more diverse, underrepresented minority individuals to pursue doctoral education in the health care field, such as nursing, is one documented way to reduce health disparities. This application proposes collaboration between University of California Los Angeles and Charles Drew University to provide the supportive and educational activities required to prepare a more diverse nursing workforce at the doctoral level, who will ask the relevant research questions and develop the science that will ultimately reduce health disparities.