Nursing Workforce Development (NWD) - Project Abstract Project Title: INSPIRE: Increasing Nursing Students Professionalism, Integrity, Resilience, and Engagement Organization Name: Oakland University- School of Nursing Mailing Address: 433 Meadow Brook Road Rochester, Michigan 48309-4452 Project Director: Julie Kruse, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Phone: (248) 364-8719 Email: juliekruse@oakland.edu Website: www.oakland.edu Grant Funds Requested: $554,989 in Year 1; $2,219,955 over four years Statutory Funding Preference: Consideration requested for medically vulnerable populations. The purpose of the Oakland University Nursing Workforce Development project, Increasing Nursing Students Professionalism, Integrity, Resilience, and Engagement, is to increase nursing progression and graduation rates and retention in practice for students who are from disadvantaged backgrounds. Project objectives focus on five levels: 1. Individual: 85% of INSPIRE students will have improved self-efficacy; 100% of INSPIRE students will engage in academic and wellness coaching; 24 students annually will receive financial support (stipends and/or scholarships). 2. Group: 85% of participants will have improved sense of belonging scores and attend monthly academic and wellness workshops; INSPIRE students admitted to the major will progress and graduate at rates equal to or exceeding the general nursing student population. 3. School of Nursing: 75% of faculty will utilize at least one strategy from their cultural development toolkit in courses; 100% of policies, procedures, and course outlines will be integrated with a social determinants framework; 100% of all student applications for admission to the major will use an updated holistic review process; 100 elementary, middle, and high school students yearly will receive training about nursing as a profession, healthy eating, and positive mental health through community clinical partnerships. 4. Institutional: Enhance the cultural humility of faculty and staff on campus; 75% of faculty and 50% of staff who attend cultural development training will utilize at least one strategy from their cultural humility toolkit in interactions with students and fellow employees; 100 student recruitment encounters; 20 nursing summer camp participants yearly; strong alliances with partners to promote the retention and graduation of students from disadvantaged backgrounds; recruitment and retention of faculty and preceptors from varied backgrounds. 5. Community: 100% of workshop participants (n=130 yearly) will identify at least one strategy that demonstrates cultural humility; new clinical sites for students that serve rural and underserved communities (10 new sites); dissemination of findings through presentations (1 each year) and peer-reviewed publications (n=2). The INSPIRE Program will use evidence-based, interdisciplinary, multi-level strategies incorporating a social determinants framework. This framework will guide interventions and achievement of program goals to impact students, faculty, staff, and nurses within the community. Ultimately, local residents will be better served by a nursing workforce prepared to meet the needs of underserved populations in southeast Michigan. The program design uses a systems approach and evidence-based strategies including: 1) student support services, 2) student and faculty recruitment, 3) mentoring, 4) financial support (scholarships and stipends), 5) holistic review, 6) collaborative partnerships, and 7) cultural humility education.
