Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Nursing Program Aims To Train Minority Students for Service in Rural Areas

Nursing Program Aims To Train Minority Students for Service in Rural Areas: Early in the last decade, administrators at Frontier Nursing University noticed that minority students were more likely to drop out because of a lack of family support and other issues, not academic failure. Another concern arose about the same time.

“We were concerned about graduating culturally competent practitioners,” says Dr. Susan Stone, president and dean of the school based in rural southeastern Kentucky.

This year, Frontier Nursing University launched a program designed to help address both problems.