Influence of underrepresented leaders on recruiting and retaining underrepresented faculty and students in nursing programs.

The U.S. population is undergoing a considerable transformation as individuals become substantially older and more racially and ethnically diverse.

Mentoring Experience for Career Advancement: The perspectives of Black Women Academic Nurse Leaders.

Mentoring is critical for career advancement in all professions. It is especially crucial for leadership development and succession planning. Studies suggest that increasing the racial minority representation in higher-level leadership will provide diverse skill sets, promote innovation, and yield positive outcomes.

Critical Race Theory: A Framework for the Re-Education of American Nurses.

The nursing profession has been predominantly white and female since the time of Florence Nightingale. The United States 2020 census revealed a changing demographic landscape in which white people are no longer the majority race; this shift will continue well into the future based on who is having babies. Calls to diversify the nursing workforce and address disparities and inequities in health care continue.

Prelicensure Nursing Students' Reflections on Institutional Response to the 2020 COVID-19 Crisis.

The study aimed to describe how prelicensure student nurses perceive academic support and their institutions' response during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. The shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every aspect of higher education, including pre-licensure nursing students. Prelicensure nursing education is one of the most stressful programs in higher education.

The voice of Black academic nurse leaders in the United States: A qualitative study.

Background: Black and African American people make up a little over 13% of the United States population. Black nurses represent 7.8% of US nurses and 8.

The White/Black hierarchy institutionalizes White supremacy in nursing and nursing leadership in the United States.

Background: Black/African American nurses (BAANs) in the United States (US) experience barriers to career advancement.

Aim: The specific aims of this study were to a) explore how the perception of racism or racial bias affects the motivation of Black/African American nurses (BAANs) in the United States (US) to seek and apply for nursing leadership and faculty positions, and b) to characterize the racism-related barriers that BAANs perceive that prevent them from moving forward with their careers in academia and nursing leadership.

Method: As part of a qualitative focused ethnographic study, 30 nurses who self-identified as BAAN, had a bachelor's degree or higher, and had at least five years of nursing experience were interviewed.

Students' perspectives of factors related to delayed completion of online RN-BSN programs.

Background: There are multiple educational programs for individuals to become registered nurses (RNs), and the transition from an associate degree or diploma to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree is vital to healthcare. This study examined the factors contributing to delayed completion or withdrawal from online RN-BSN nursing programs from students' perspectives.

Method: Thematic content analyses were conducted on qualitative data obtained from semi-structured interviews (N = 26).

Rejecting the myth of equal opportunity: an agenda to eliminate racism in nursing education in the United States.

Background: Unfortunately, racism and discrimination against Ethnic minority (EM) has been globalized, universally infecting industries worldwide, and the field of nursing has not been spared. In the United States (US), overt and institutionalized racism (IR) still permeates the fields of nursing, nursing leadership, and nursing education. Programs to address these disparities, and efforts by nursing professional societies and nursing education policymaking bodies to address racism in the nursing field, specifically with nursing leadership and education, have met with little success.

African born black nurses' perception of their U.S. work environment: Race matters.

Background: Healthy work environment is essential to patients' safety, staff recruitment, retention, and organization's financial viability. It is imperative to examine, understand and mitigate any and all factors that may contribute to unhealthy work environment.

Purpose: This study aimed to describe how African-born Black nurses felt their race affected their experience of the work environment and whether these experiences contributed to perceptions of unhealthy work environments.

Experiences of Nigerian Internationally Educated Nurses Transitioning to United States Health Care Settings.

Introduction: Successful transition to practice of internationally educated nurses (IENs) can critically affect quality of care. The aim of this study was to characterize the facilitators and barriers to transition of Nigerian IENs (NIENs) to the United States health care setting.

Method: Using a descriptive phenomenology approach, 6 NIENs were interviewed about their transitional experiences in the United States.

Black men and utilisation of healthcare services.

Health disparities is described as inequalities signified by differences in environment, access, utilization, quality of care, health status, or particular health outcomes. On a variety of health measures, healthcare access and other social determinants of health, minority men fare worse than white men. Nurses have the responsibility to eliminate health disparities among people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.