Nurses are key contributors to the success of healthcare team, a team that is strengthened by the diversity of the participating members. However diversity (e.g racial/ethnic, gender) amongst nursing faculty is low, preventing schools of nursing (SON) from reflecting the populations that they serve academically and clinically.
Through deliberate and concentrated efforts to create institutional change that builds an environment that promotes inclusion, there can be an increase in FOC in academic nursing. In turn the existing states of isolation and lack of community for FOC in the nursing academy may improve. With that change, and with an overall change in institutional culture, perhaps there will be a progression in the retention rates of nursing FOC to match the changing face of America.
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