Transcript Breakthrough To Nursing Escalate Your Career By Breaking Barriers BTN Committee: Jae Kook Lim, Chair Adam Tebben Sabrina Lozier.

Breakthrough To Nursing
Escalate Your Career By
Breaking Barriers
BTN Committee:
Jae Kook Lim, Chair
Adam Tebben
Sabrina Lozier
Breakthrough to Nursing (BTN)
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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.
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The BTN Project was started in 1965 to address NSNA’s concerns regarding national issues which
remain relevant today:
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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
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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
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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 Activities
Breakthrough 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 Center
www.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
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[email protected]
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[email protected]
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[email protected]
• Adam Tebben – Director
• Sabrina Lozier – Imprint Editor
• Cathy Ramos, AD – Membership Staff
Specialist
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[email protected]