NCIN Focuses on Diversity in Nursing Workforce

Diversity among health care providers plays key role in quality of care.

“'It is possible to change the face of nursing.' With those words, Vernell P. DeWitty, Ph.D., R.N., deputy program director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program  (NCIN), captured the scope of one of the most difficult challenges facing the nation’s health care system: the need to create a more diverse workforce so as to better serve the nation’s health care needs. DeWitty’s remarks came before a roomful of reporters and editors at a National Association of Black Journalists’ (NABJ) symposium on health disparities in early March."

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Story originally posted by the RWJF on Mar 29, 2010