The High School to Higher Education Pipeline Program: A focus on Black male representation in nursing.

Background: Increasing the number of Black men in nursing can enhance racial, ethnic, and gender diversity within the nursing workforce. However, there is a lack of nursing pipeline programs that specifically focus on Black men.

Purpose: The purposes of this article are to describe the High School to Higher Education (H2H) Pipeline Program as an approach to increasing representation of Black men in nursing and to describe H2H Program participants' perspectives of the program after the first year.

Supporting Doctoral Students and Faculty: The Development of an Annual Doctoral Symposium.

Aim: The aim of the study was to develop a sustainable annual symposium to support doctoral students in nursing across the state of Georgia.

Background: A goal of the nursing profession, highlighted in the Institute of Medicine Future of Nursing report of 2011, is to increase the number of nurses with doctorates. They are needed to fill faculty positions as professors retire and to step into leadership positions as health care systems become more complex.

Perspectives of Nurses Pursuing Doctoral Degrees in Georgia: Implications for Recruitment.

Background: Increasing the number of nurses with doctorates is a goal of the nursing profession. The Georgia Nursing Leadership Coalition developed a survey to understand the perspectives of nurses pursuing doctoral degrees in Georgia to improve recruitment and retention strategies.

Method: A 26-item online survey was distributed to all students enrolled in Georgia-based doctoral programs in nursing in spring 2014.

Barriers to participation in governance and professional advancement: a comparison of internationally educated nurses and registered nurses educated in the United States.

Objective: This study compared the perspectives of internationally educated nurses (IENs) and registered nurses (RNs) educated in the United States regarding participation in hospital governance structures and professional advancement.

Background: Nurses' participation in hospital governance is reported to contribute to empowerment. No research has examined how IENs' perceptions about participation in governance compared with those of U.

The experience of discrimination by US and Internationally educated nurses in hospital practice in the USA: a qualitative study.

Aim: To document experiences of nurses educated abroad and in the USA in 2 urban hospitals in the southeastern USA.

Background: Nurses are responsible for providing quality patient care. Discrimination against nurses in the workplace may create hostile environments, potentially affecting patient care and leading to higher nurse attrition rates.