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HealthStart: An Innovative Pilot Model Promoting Diversity in Nursing Education
Julie A Vignato1, Teresa Guinon
1About the Authors Julie Vignato, PhD, RN, is a postdoctoral fellow/lecturer, College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Teresa Guinon, MA literature, ESL-certified, is a pretransfer department chair and English faculty, Letters Department, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, California. This research received a Linked Learning Pathway to the Baccalaureate Grant of $25,000 from California State University Long Beach through the Irvine Foundation. The authors thank the following individuals for their support and contributions to HealthStart: Maria Martinez, Dana Smith, Melissa Hughes, and Sandy Comstock. For more information, contact Dr. Vignato at Julie-vignato@uiowa.edu.
Abstract:
This article describes a pilot model for promoting diversity in prelicensure nursing education. The National League for Nursing calls on nursing education leadership to recruit, retain, and graduate diverse students to promote nursing diversity and decrease health disparities. Scaffolding contextualized learning through a learning community and "The Puente Project" bicultural and bilingual outreach guidelines were combined to create HealthStart. Retention rates increased by 23.5 percent in a predominately low socioeconomic, racially and ethnically diverse population. It was found that multiple modalities promote student success and diversity in prelicensure nursing education.
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