New Mexico State University

 With NCIN support, New Mexico State University’s school of nursing developed a number of innovative initiatives and school-wide strategies to promote the recruitment and retention of minority, low-in-come, and rural students and others from backgrounds underrepresented in nursing. These strategies include minority recruitment through health career clubs; a distance-learning program partnering with a community college; individualized and/or formal group remediation by nursing faculty for struggling students; a simulation lab to develop clinical reasoning skills and enhance professional judgment; distance learning technologies to allow flexible scheduling to help students meet the demands of family and work; and participation in the statewide nursing education consortium.