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## Background: An escalating nursing shortage brought attention to nursing student retention and success including graduation and licensure. ## Purpose: The purpose of this health resources and services administration (hrsa) project, realizing educational attainment and careers in healthcare (reach), was to increase nursing progression and graduation rates for undergraduate nursing students from diverse and/or under-resourced backgrounds. ## Methods: Reach goals focused on four levels: 1) individual: neutralize the impact of economic-environmental factors that are barriers for diverse and under-resourced populations to pursue a bsn, 2) group: bridge gaps within a social determinants framework to achieve progression and graduation, 3) institutional: broaden the cultural competence of faculty on campus and 4) community: expand the knowledge and skills of the social determinants of health and cultural competence for nurses within the largest nursing employer in the community. ## Results: 92% (35/38) of participants graduated with a bsn and 91% (32/35) of these graduates are employed as registered nurses. sixty percent (n = 35) of participants are employed in hrsa designated health pro

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Author

Julie A. Kruse; Joyce P. Litten; Jean Kujawa; Nydia Chatman; Judy Didion

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1532-8481)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Nursing (Health Sciences)