Our mission is to positively impact the lives of nursing students by providing support, fostering character development, enhancing leadership skills, and building self-confidence. Fostering mentoring relationships is one fundamental strategy for nurse educators to develop and maintain an inclusive environment that is vital for the recruitment of diverse students.
The Mentoring Hub is based on the strengths of TCNJ, students, and mentors involved. The program offers social, educational experiences, and support.
Improve the ability of students to connect with others in a professional manner.
Improve professional communication skills (i.e. public speaking skills, active listening skills).
Increase knowledge of a particular subject area (i.e. nursing).
Assess (pre and post) student mindsets toward nursing program (sense of belonging).
Assess a sense of belonging.
Develop an understanding of health equity best practices in contemporary society.
Develop a mentor/mentee relationship amongst nursing students and nurse mentors.
Increase the retention of nursing students (Year 1 baseline).
Create an inclusive and welcoming community.
Become familiar with leaders in nursing, campus community, and resources.
The Mentoring Hub for Nursing Students and the Division of Inclusive Excellence will collaborate to create a robust program that will:
Shatter Stereotypes
Examining one’s internal and external cultural identities, as well as discovering how those identities are shared or not shared by others, can serve as the basis for improving intercultural understanding, communication, cooperation, and collaboration within diverse communities.
Increase Engagement
Engaging faculty, staff, and students within the Department of Nursing supports stakeholders in exploring, interacting, communicating, and working with others whom they perceive to be culturally different from themselves.
Decrease Attrition and Increase Retention
A nurse mentorship program can benefit nursing students in many ways: providing resources, role models, guidance, and encouragement.
Create a Standardized Mentorship Curriculum
This standardized curriculum could be adapted within other departments to develop mentorship programs.
Establish Inclusivity
Madeline Leininger’s Transcultural Theory, known as Culture Care Theory, and Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory, will be used as the foundation for teaching transcultural nursing and encouraging inclusion. In transcultural nursing, nurses practice according to the patient’s cultural considerations. It begins with a cultural assessment, which takes the patient’s cultural background into consideration during assessments and when providing care. Just as it is important to assess patients’ cultural backgrounds, it is also important to assess the cultural backgrounds of students. According to Bandura’s theory, human beings’ thoughts, affect, and behavior could be significantly influenced by observation as well as a direct experience.
Announcements and Events:
Yolanda Nelson, EdD, MSNed, RN-BC
Associate Professor
Co-Chair, Department of Nursing
Director- The Mentoring Hub
The College of New Jersey
School of Nursing and Health Sciences
Department of Nursing
Trenton Hall, 206
2000 Pennington Rd.
Ewing NJ 08628