Nursing's leaky pipeline: Barriers to a diverse nursing workforce

Nursing educational programs have been charged with increasing the diversity of the nursing workforce; however, this depends on having a diverse and qualified applicant pool to select from. To determine the effects of student losses over time on nursing program diversity. Descriptive longitudinal study. Progression of all students from a single university enrolled as pre-nursing majors from 2012 to 2016 (N = 2498) was tracked over seven key...