Developing Diverse Caregivers: Scholarship-for-Service

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Developing Diverse CaregiversScholarship-for-Ser
vice

• Angela Bonet and Al Wiseman
• Georgia Perimeter College
• (Metro Atlanta)
• Careers Conference 2009

This project is supported by funds from the
Division of Nursing (DN), Bureau of Health
Professions (BHPr), Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS) under The
Nursing Workforce Diversity grant number
D19HPL7377 for 833,000.  The information or
content and conclusions are those of the author
and should not be construed as the official
position or policy of, nor should any official
endorsement be inferred by, the DN, BHPr, HRSA,
DHHS, or the US Government.  
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Agenda

• Introductions Presenters and Audience
• Georgia Perimeter College in Brief
• Inspiration Why?
• Application How?
• Examples of Career Development and Cultural
• Competence program activities
• QA

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Introductions Presenters

• Angela Bonet, Coordinator
• angela.bonet_at_gpc.edu
• 678-891-3449
• Al Wiseman, Nursing Counselor
• alfred.wiseman_at_gpc.edu
• 678-891-3305
• http//www.gpc.edu/gpcddc

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Introductions Audience

• What do you want to learn?
• What experience do you have with grant-funded
  projects?
• What experience do you have working with African
  American and Latino populations?

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Georgia Perimeter College in Brief

• Largest associate degree-granting college
• Third largest institution in the University
  System of Georgia
• Six locations in metro Atlanta
• Fall 2008 Enrollment
• Total 22,808
• Minority Enrollment 14,966
• International Students 3,727
• Average Student Age 25.1 years
• Programs 38 Associate degrees, 4 Career and
  Technical degrees and 9 Dual degree programs with
  DeKalb Tech

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Inspiration Why?

• Increase the number of minority representation in
  RN workforce
• Improve graduation rates of
• minority students
• Develop culturally competent
• nurses
• Eliminate health barriers and
• disparities

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Project Goals

• Recruit, identify and select junior and senior
  minority participants from four high schools to
  participate in Pre-entry Preparation Activities
  resulting in 112 participants in Year 1, 112
  participants in Year 2 and 112 participants in
  Year 3.
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• Increase the number of minority students applying
  to the pre-nursing program to 28 in Year 1, 28 in
  Year 2 and 28 in Year 3.
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• Increase the number of minority students entering
  the RN Program by 14 in Year 1, 14 in Year 2 and
  14 in Year 3 by providing Scholarships-for-Service
  to minority applicants to pre-nursing annually.
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• Retain 70 of the minority participants each
  project year and thereby graduate 10 culturally
  competent RNs in Year 1, 10 culturally competent
  RNs in Year 2 and 10 culturally competent RNs in
  Year 3.

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Application How?

• Program Components (Mandatory)
• Pre-entry high school (10-12) and pre-nursing
• Retention nursing
• Stipends and Scholarships for all 3 groups
• Program Activities
• Career Development
• Cultural Competence

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Examples of Career Development Program Activities

• High School
• Career Assessments
• Healthcare professions
• Pre-Nursing
• Strong candidates Nursing Entrance Test and
  nursing school application
• Other candidates Other schools, other healthcare
  professions, other careers, other choices
• Nursing
• Resume and cover letter workshops
• Job Interviewing skills workshops
• The Power of a Positive Attitudethis semesters
  theme
• All students
• Nursing and Health Careers Conference

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Examples of Cultural Competence Program Activities

• Spanish Interpreter and Translator
• Spanish-Medical Terminology website
• Shadowing MD at local Latino clinics
• Rosetta Stone in Spanish and English
• Other Tools and Resources

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Questions