Lehman College School of Nursing, CUNY & Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center
Expanding Diversity among the Nurse Workforce: A Collaborative (EDAN)
- C. Alicia Georges EdD, RN, Chair & Associate Prof, Dept of Nursing, Lehman College, CUNY
- Keville Frederickson EdD, RN, Prof, Director of Research & Scholarship, Dept of Nursing, Lehman College, CUNY
- Jeanine Frumenti, MPA, RN, VP Patient Care Services & Chief Nursing Officer, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center
The Expanding Diversity among the Nurse Workforce: A Collaborative (EDAN) program aims to build racial and ethnic diversity as well as cultural competency in the nursing workforce by increasing the recruitment, retention and graduation of Hispanic nursing students. The project provides Hispanic nursing students with academic support, tutoring and mentorship in an effort to expand enrollment in and successful completion of baccalaureate nursing education and increase the number of Hispanic nurses.
The EDAN program recruits students enrolled in the Lehman nursing program, Lehman pre-nursing program and high schools in the Bronx. Students enrolled in EDAN are encouraged to utilize various tutoring and mentoring opportunities. EDAN students’ grades are monitored to identify academic difficulty in order to provide timely support. In an effort to assimilate and prepare students to practice in the Bronx following graduation, Lehman has partnered with Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, where EDAN students attend meetings and seminars, are assigned staff nurse mentors and are offered paid clinical work-study opportunities.
Monitoring and evaluation will assess the impact of the EDAN program on student admission, successful progression and graduation of Hispanic students from the nursing program, as well as students’ success on the NCLEX exam and places of employment of the graduated EDAN nursing students.
