What is it about?
The academic success of adult, minority students who were a part of the New Pathways to Professional Nursing program was attributed to a unique combination of financial assistance, infrastructural support and encouragement. This paper examines, defines and illustrates particular types of encouragement and suggests that this encouragement was the key to the success of the students.
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Why is it important?
We learned that while financial assistance and other types of support are helpful to those pursuing academic success, these by themselves do not go far enough. However, when students received meaningful encouragement through institutional, group and individual support, combined with financial assistance, the level of academic success increased.
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I hope that readers will understand that while providing financial assistance to those struggling to achieve academically is important, nothing can replace the results that a few simple words of meaningful encouragement can produce. I am inspired by the students I have the honor to work with and they remind me every day that there are those who only need encouragement to pursue their dreams.
Elisheba Haqq-Stevens
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
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This page is a summary of: New Paths to Professional Nursing: Using Encouragement to Prepare a Minority Workforce to Enter the Nursing Profession, Creative Nursing, January 2017, Springer Publishing Company,
DOI: 10.1891/1078-4535.23.3.158.
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