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Creating A Pipeline To Increase Diversity In Executive Leadership Positions, Trarina Harris
Creating A Pipeline To Increase Diversity In Executive Leadership Positions, Trarina Harris
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Background: Minority nurse leader presence at the executive leadership level is suboptimal, with insufficient pathways to increase representation. The lack of diversity in executive leadership threatens efforts to improve patient care and reduce disparities (Jerome Harris, 2021).
Local Problem: Practices to increase the diversity of executive nurse leaders at a pediatric medical center have had very little to no impact. Frontline nurses and nurse executives are not racially or ethnically representative of the increasingly minority patient populations served.
Context: As a commitment to increasing workforce diversity, the medical center developed an executive-level Racial Equity Taskforce, which aligned with the …