Publication Date

2-1-2024

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Health Equity

Volume

8

Issue

1

DOI

10.1089/heq.2023.0099

First Page

128

Last Page

131

Abstract

For decades, health professional organizations have recommended increased diversity in the workforce and education. To address persistent inequities in health care, the racial composition of the nursing workforce needs be congruent with the U.S. population. Without first addressing structural inequity in nursing education programs, the nursing profession cannot begin to address structural racism in health care. The lack of nursing student diversity is reflective of barriers in program admissions. This article is a call to nursing accreditation bodies to operationalize anti-racism to improve U.S. nursing workforce diversity by introducing accountability structures that require evidence-based holistic admission review and analysis of admission data to ensure that student cohorts are diverse across nursing programs, thereby ensuring a future workforce that reflects the diversity of the U.S. population.

Keywords

anti-racism, diversity, health equity, holistic admissions, nursing, nursing education

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Department

Nursing

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