Teaching and Learning in Nursing
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 28-33, April 2007

Mentoring as a retention strategy in a diverse, multicultural, urban associate degree nursing program

  • Georgina Colalillo, MS, RN

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Nursing Department, Queensborough Community College/CUNY, Bayside, NY 11364, USA

Abstract 

Nursing faculty are expending considerable resources to recruit qualified students. Retention of these valuable students should be a priority to meet the growing need for nurses in a changing health care environment. However, this has been a challenge due to a variety of variables inherent in the nontraditional student and in nursing education. A mentoring program was developed in a diverse, multicultural, urban community college. The significance of this enrichment program in improving retention rate and psychological outcomes for first-semester clinical nursing students was identified.

Keywords: Mentoring, Retention, Associate degree nursing

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PII: S1557-3087(07)00007-8

doi:10.1016/j.teln.2007.01.005

Teaching and Learning in Nursing
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 28-33, April 2007

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