{"id":46896,"date":"2001-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2001\/12\/21\/unmc-college-of-nursing-cited-by-national-peers-forits-success-in-recruiting-more-males-minorities\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:50:46","slug":"unmc-college-of-nursing-cited-by-national-peers-forits-success-in-recruiting-more-males-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2001\/12\/21\/unmc-college-of-nursing-cited-by-national-peers-forits-success-in-recruiting-more-males-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMC College of Nursing cited by national peers for\n\nits success in recruiting more males, minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing recently<\/p>\n

was cited by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) for<\/p>\n

increasing the number of male and minority applicants and students in its<\/p>\n

undergraduate program.<\/p>\n

The college was one of about a dozen academic nursing institutions featured<\/p>\n

in an article titled, Effective Strategies for Increasing Diversity in<\/p>\n

Nursing Programs, in the latest issue of the AACNs Issue Bulletin. The<\/p>\n

bulletin, published periodically, provides in-depth perspective on nursing<\/p>\n

education developments shaping the national health care agenda.<\/p>\n

The article was based on a survey of colleges in the association. The<\/p>\n

survey asked what efforts the colleges were making in increasing diversity.<\/p>\n

The bulletin is posted at: http:\/\/www.aacn.nche.edu\/Publications\/issues\/dec01.htm.<\/p>\n

UNMC is featured quite prominently in the bulletin and serves as a<\/p>\n

model for other schools to follow, said Robert Rosseter, director of public<\/p>\n

affairs for the association.. I commend the college on its efforts to attract<\/p>\n

underrepresented audiences into nursing.<\/p>\n

The UNMC College of Nursing is highlighted as effectively using a combination<\/p>\n

of recruitment techniques with innovative twists to reach out to men and<\/p>\n

minorities. Minorities include African-Americans, Native Americans and<\/p>\n

Hispanics.<\/p>\n

In 2000-01, the college had an 84 percent increase in minority applications<\/p>\n

with a 43 percent increase in admissions. Applications of males in the<\/p>\n

same time period were up 54 percent with 77 percent admitted.<\/p>\n

Attracting men and minorities into nursing is essential in maintaining<\/p>\n

the integrity of the nursing profession, said Dani Eveloff, recruitment<\/p>\n

coordinator, UNMC College of Nursing. Nursing schools must take the lead<\/p>\n

in launching new and aggressive recruitment campaigns aimed at diversifying<\/p>\n

the nursing workforce.<\/p>\n

Eveloff said some of the tactics used by the college include: hiring<\/p>\n

a nurse recruiter, updating marketing materials to reflect diversity, developing<\/p>\n

and mailing letters about nursing programs in Spanish and visiting Native<\/p>\n

American reservations. The college also communicates with counselors, teachers<\/p>\n

and elementary, middle school and high school students and has developed<\/p>\n

a system to track potential students.<\/p>\n

The college also created a Web site to attract future students. Children<\/p>\n

can learn about nursing at www.unmc.edu\/nursing\/careers.<\/p>\n

The bulletin reported nursing schools enroll more diverse students Though<\/p>\n

nursing schools enroll more diverse students than medical (10.5%) or dental<\/p>\n

colleges (11%), the overwhelming majority of students in today’s baccalaureate<\/p>\n

nursing programs are female (91%) from non-minority backgrounds (73.5%).<\/p>\n

The concern is the profession does not mirror the nations population —<\/p>\n

51 percent women and almost 33 percent minority.<\/p>\n

It also points out many reasons why men and minority groups do not pursue<\/p>\n

nursing, including role stereotypes, economic barriers, few mentors, gender<\/p>\n

biases, and lack of direction from early authority figures.<\/p>\n

UNMC is overcoming some of these barriers.<\/p>\n

This bulletin validates that were reaching out, Eveloff said. We<\/p>\n

went from 15 undergraduate applications when we started this effort in<\/p>\n

1999 to 26 applications this year. Our numbers aren’t where we want them<\/p>\n

to be yet, but it is a process.<\/p>\n

Our drive is a result of trying to increase the number of nurses in<\/p>\n

the profession, with a special emphasis on diversity. We also are helped<\/p>\n

by UNMCs overall focus on increasing diversity, as well as the Office<\/p>\n

of Student Equity and Multicultural Affairs, which does a lot of follow-up<\/p>\n

with potential students.<\/p>\n

The Issue Bulletin series is distributed to AACN’s more than 500 member<\/p>\n

nursing schools nationwide, as well as key congressional leaders, state<\/p>\n

and federal agency directors, heads of academic health centers, and other<\/p>\n

health care and higher education officials whose decisions significantly<\/p>\n

impact on nursing education and nursing research.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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