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Escalate Your Career By Breaking Barriers
BTN Committee:
Jae Kook Lim, Chair
Adam Tebben
Sabrina Lozier
Breakthrough To Nursing
Breakthrough to Nursing (BTN)
• The primary goal of NSNA’s Breakthrough to Nursing Project is to increase the number of qualified students enrolled in and graduated from nursing schools.
• The BTN Project was started in 1965 to address NSNA’s concerns regarding national issues which remain relevant today:
• Recruitment and retention
• Minority recruitment
• Men in the profession
• Young students
• Non-traditional students
• Mentoring and support of all enrolled in professional nursing programs
What drives Breakthrough To Nursing
The faces of our nation
The faces of our patients
The faces of our healthcare workforce
2015 Resolutions that were passed
• Increased awareness and education regarding interpreter use for limited English proficiency patients
• Interprofessional education advancement
• Mentoring programs to improve nursing students overall wellness
Issues
• The adequacy of health care services for minorities.
• The need to increase the number of minority health care providers.
• The need to provide opportunities for minority nursing students to develop leadership skills.
• The need for the nursing education system to be more responsive to the needs of minority students.
Voice Your Opinions
• Lizzette Chavez (Michigan – BTN Director):
“The biggest problem I am currently facing as the state level BTN director is a lack of guidance or mentorship.”
• Jennie Nguyen (Kansas – BTN Director):
“In Kansas it has been a challenge to get responses from schools that we have reached out to. Locally, it has been a challenge to encourage participation from students and support from faculty because the benefits of being active weren't clear in the past.”
• Daniel Duron (California – BTN Committee Member):
"Obstacles: this is at a local level but the lack of volunteers make hard for BTN Projects to follow through."
Goals For 2015 - 2016
• Enhance membership awareness of BTN mission and goals.
• Promote mentorship for leadership activities. This is to promote cultural awareness, diversity, and competence.
• Identify evidence based practice mentorship programs or surveys for leadership in nursing organization and schools.
• Exhibit 4 to 6 BTN success stories on the NSNA website.
Program ActivitiesBreakthrough to Nursing Institute
• Awards & Honors Booklet
• BTN Columns in Imprint
• Guidelines for Planning: BTN (includes how to get a committee started)
Awards
NSNA will present Breakthrough to Nursing Project Awards
Successful Breakthrough to Nursing Project
State and School levels
BTN Guidelines For Planning
• BTN history and background information
• How to start a BTN committee
• Ideas for promoting BTN projects
• Information about NSNA Career Center web page
“Nursing – The Ultimate Adventure” Pamphlet
What is nursing?
How to apply for nursing school
Educational pathways to becoming a nurse
Licensure requirements
Salary and benefits
NSNA Career Centerwww.nsna.org
• Information about selecting a nursing school
• Scholarship and loan information
• Career opportunities
• Links to nursing schools
• Nursing organizations
Additional Recruitment Tools
Television Advertising and Nurse Recruitment Video, Pamphlets and Posters
• Call 888-981-9111
• Website www.discovernursing.com
THANK YOU!
• I like to thank Cathy, Adam, and Sabrina for being part of this journey. I wouldn’t know what I would do without them.
• I also would like to thank Lizzette, Jennie, and Daniel for their astute perspectives from a BTN standpoint.
• “I learned that your nursing journey doesn’t start when you apply to the nursing program but when you are exposed to it, and we are key facilitators in that.” – Jae Kook Lim, NSNA BTN Director
Contact Reference
• Jae Kook Lim – Breakthrough to Nursing Director• [email protected]
• Adam Tebben – Director• [email protected]
• Sabrina Lozier – Imprint Editor• [email protected]
• Cathy Ramos, AD – Membership Staff Specialist• [email protected]