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Adverse
Pregnancy Outcomes Reporting System (APORS) Case Management Services
Beauty and Barber Shops Health Initiative
Career Ladders
Chicago
Partnership for Health Promotion
Community
Technology Center: Computer Training Courses at Instituto del
Progreso Latino
Community Technology Center: North Lawndale Community News
Community Technology Center: North Lawndale Employment Network
intimate portraits
New Directions
Pilsen Community Futures
Preserving Latino Urban Leaders
REACH
2010/Lawndale Health Promotion Project
School-Based
Health Centers
Sustained
involvement/technical support for previously established
community/technology centers
Teen
REACH
UICNI Community Mental Health Program Student Therapeutic and Resource Services Program (STARS)
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Program
Description
The Mentored BSN Program of the UIC College of Nursing is designed to address two serious modern problems. First, it is well known that there are wide disparities in health outcomes, life expectancy and quality of life when comparisons are made between the dominant culture and those of ethnic minorities. Among the strategies to address these inequities are efforts to improve the use of existing health care resources. Key among these strategies is the preparation and strategic placement of ethnic minority nurses in settings serving minority populations. A second and closely related concern is the severe nursing shortage. Not only are there fewer nurses from under-represented groups; there is shortage of nurses in general, particularly in rural and high need communities.
The UIC Mentored BSN Program highlights our involvement in training community workers, and addresses both concerns by working with community based organizations and individuals to identify and introduce ethnic minorities to career opportunities in nursing. The program is designed to offer career advancement opportunities to individuals who are currently working in the health field as community workers, peer health educators, medical assistants, and technicians among other similar roles.
Contact
Glenda Burnett
(312) 996-7780
gburnett@uic.edu
Program Dates
2003 – present
Partners- UIC
-College of Nursing
-School of Public Health
Funding source
-Illinois Department of Human Services
-Health Resources and Services Administration
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