Bridges to the Bacclaureate Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请为埃默里大学内尔霍奇森伍德拉夫护理学院（NHWSN）和乔治亚周边学院（GPC）护理计划之间的学士学位（BttB）合作伙伴关系提供了桥梁。该计划的重点是识别来自代表性不足的种族和少数民族群体的学生，这些群体在护理和护理科学方面也代表性不足，并支持他们通过护理学士学位（BSN）的副学士学位，并在埃默里大学或类似的研究密集型机构的护理博士课程中从事护理科学的职业。BttB旨在增加在GPC完成护理AS学位并进入NHWSN BSN课程的未被充分代表的学生人数；培养护理科学方面的技能和知识；他们融入了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应对国家解决护理短缺的需求，他们既可以教授，也可以为改进实践创造证据。它还解决了国际移民组织的呼吁，即护理领导与其他专业合作，为国家的医疗保健危机和持续存在的健康差距问题制定创新的解决方案。BttB计划将包括五个要素；（一）招聘招生；(2)研究曝光；(3)研究沉浸；(4)学术规划；(5)指导、建议和咨询。两所院校的教师将参与选择GPC学生进入GPC护理专业第一学期的BttB项目。研究圆桌会议以及暑期和学年的研究浸入式体验将加强GPC的研究环境，并使学生从概念和经验上学习护理科学。当学生转入NHWSN并进入专门为其先前培训量身定制的RN-BSN计划时，圆桌会议和浸入式体验将继续进行，并进一步沉浸在护理科学中。在NHWSN， BttB学生将处于一个由大量终身教职和终身教职教师积极开展资助研究的环境中。

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.