Recruiting and Retaining African Americans in BSN Programs.
African Americans are proportionally underrepresented in the population of American nurses. The purpose of this study was to investigate and understand the driving forces behind the successful recruitment and retention of African Americans in Bachelor of Science Nursing (BSN) programs. For this qual...
| Published in: | ABNF Journal Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 44 - 50 |
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| Format: | research Journal Article |
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Association of Black Nursing Faculty Foundation
Spring2019
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | African Americans are proportionally underrepresented in the population of American nurses. The purpose of this study was to investigate and understand the driving forces behind the successful recruitment and retention of African Americans in Bachelor of Science Nursing (BSN) programs. For this qualitative constructivist grounded-theory study, 16 graduates were interviewed using semistructured questions from an interview guide. Nine themes and three categories emerged from the data. The findings revealed that the unique characteristics of African Americans in their successful recruitment and retention in a BSN program was a process of relying on their inner skills and dispositions to redefine their learning context and embrace their external support systems. This study offers educational leaders a new order of priority for recruitment and retention initiatives and provides useful strategies for nurse educators to redesign their learning approaches to promote the success of African Americans in BSN programs. |
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