First Diversity Project
Prepare a diverse RN workforce by providing mentorship opportunities for nursing students from diverse backgrounds to engage in mentored clinical experiences with underserved populations and communities
Identify mentors—at least 20 (NAHN, Philippine Nurses Association, Black Nurses Association)
Focus on underserved populations
Mentor training—using storytelling with structure
Engage students
Pair diverse mentors with students from BNF program at SMCC and PC
Progress - April 2016
Four mentor workshops held; 1 mentee workshop held
Framework of “Storytelling” and archetypes utilized for mentors to learn to tell their own story and understand the stories of mentees
Self development of the mentor was the focus with various tools for analysis of personality and archetypes.
Overwhelming positive evaluations—little attrition
Mentors and mentees work together to complete a community service project with diverse cultures/population
Mentees due to graduate this Spring
Next Steps
Increase diversity with more schools and diversity (ASU, American Indian population)
Recruit 40 mentor/mentee pairs
Revise workshops and schedules to account for unavoidable absences
Explore distance technology for mentor training.
