Action Coalition to Increase Diversity in Nursing by Strengthening HBCU Nursing Programs

项目摘要/摘要 历史悠久的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)的28个护理项目面临着几个 共同的挑战。他们的许多学生都是低收入者，入学时有学业上的缺陷， 孩子，和/或从事最低工资的工作，导致学生保留率、毕业率和 护理板通过率。随着近年来机构支持的下降，教职员工和 管理人员没有更多的时间和资源来加强他们的教学、领导和 学生准备技能。HBCU护理学校可以从分享成功中受益匪浅 教学实践和学生支持工具，但从来没有组织带来过它们 在一起。他们很少合作，仅仅是因为缺乏资源和机制。这个 全国护士联盟(NLN)代表1234个护理项目和40,000多个护理项目 教职员工。它是唯一一家其高管曾担任HBCU院长和教员的实体。 NLN提供广泛的学术领导力发展培训和辅导，教职员工 发展，和学生的表现。 我们建议组建HBCU护理项目的第一个持续联盟。在它的第一个年度 会议期间，我们将介绍由成功的学校和 NLN到由来自六所最需要的学校的关键教职员工和管理人员组成的5人团队。为 教师参与者，我们将共享资源，以建立教学和临床教学技能。为 院长和管理人员，我们将提供关于基本领导技能的培训；资金；预算； 内部/外部宣传；以及教职员工表现。我们将介绍PASS，一个工具包和 指导教师更好地为学生准备护士执照考试(例如，通过 为学生提供NLN考前考试)。团队将合作打造领导力 以及根据学校的具体需求制定的教师发展行动计划。 通过超过12个月的定期指导、后续的当地行动小组会议和 虚拟后续会议，NLN将帮助学校完成和实施其行动计划， 向学生传递通行证，解决问题，评估和改进联盟的 编程。在第二年的会议上，2-3所学校将加入原来的6所学校，制定行动计划。 并将PASS打造成一个模范学生成功支持中心(SSSC)。NLN也将同样 通过定期指导和两次年中后续会议为他们提供支持。第三届年会 会议将把2-3所学校纳入这个小组，以起草行动计划，接受指导 和年中支持，并敲定SSSC。每年，我们都会评估关键指标，包括 学生留校率、毕业率和护理委员会通过率；教师发展活动； 课程也发生了变化。最后，NLN将传播由此产生的培训计划SSSC 工具包和指南、最佳实践、工具和结果数据 会员制。 这是有史以来第一次，这个为期3年的会议系列将带来HBCU的变革推动者 护理学校与专家一起提高HBCU的领导技能、教师技能和 学生表演。

Project Summary/Abstract The 28 nursing programs at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) face several common challenges. Many of their students are low-income, enter with academic deficits, have children, and/or hold minimum-wage jobs, leading to weaker student retention, graduation and nursing-board passing rates. As institutional support has dropped in recent years, faculty and administrators have less time and resources to strengthen their teaching, leadership and student-preparation skills. HBCU nursing schools could benefit greatly from sharing successful teaching practices and student-support tools, yet no organization has ever brought them together. They have rarely collaborated simply for lack of resources and a mechanism. The National League for Nursing (NLN) represents 1,234 nursing programs and 40,000+ nursing faculty. It is the only entity whose senior executives have served as HBCU deans and faculty. NLN provides extensive training and coaching in academic leadership development, faculty development, and student performance. We propose forming the first ongoing coalition of HBCU nursing programs. At its first annual conference, we will introduce best practices and tools developed by successful schools and NLN to 5-person teams of key faculty and administrators from six schools in greatest need. For faculty participants, we will share resources to build pedagogical and clinical teaching skills. For deans and administrators, we will provide training on basic leadership skills; funding; budgeting; internal/external advocacy; and faculty performance. We will introduce PASS, a toolkit and guidance for faculty to better prepare their students for the nursing licensure exam (e.g., by providing students with NLN pre-test exams). Teams will collaborate in crafting a leadership and faculty development action plan tailored to its school's specific needs. Through periodic mentoring over 12 months, a follow-up local action group meeting, and a virtual follow-up meeting, NLN will help the schools complete and implement their action plans, deliver PASS to students, trouble-shoot problems, and evaluate and improve the coalition's programming. In the Year 2 conference, 2-3 schools will join the original six to craft action plans and build PASS into a model Student Success Support Center (SSSC). NLN will likewise support them with periodic mentoring and two mid-year follow-up meetings. The third annual conference will bring 2-3 more schools into this group to draft action plans, receive mentoring and mid-year support, and finalize the SSSC. Each year, we will evaluate key metrics, including student retention, graduation and nursing-board passing rates; faculty development activities; and curriculum changes. Finally, NLN will disseminate the resulting training program, SSSC toolkit and guidance, best practices, tools, and outcomes data throughout our nationwide membership. For the first time ever, this 3-year conference series would bring change agents from HBCU nursing schools together with experts to improve HBCU leadership skills, faculty skills, and student performance.