A Toolkit For Developing A Summer Nursing Boot Camp For High School Students
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A Toolkit For Developing A Summer Nursing Boot Camp For High School Students
- 1. A Toolkit for Developing a Summer Nursing Boot Camp for High School Students Susan Sanner, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CNE Katrina Barnes, MS, RN Lillian Parker, PhD, RN Sue Odom, DSN, RN Clayton State University GANE Conference February 19, 2010
Editor's Notes
- Good afternoon. I am Susan Sanner and this is my colleague Katrina Barnes. We are from Clayton State University and are delighted to present our Summer Nursing Boot Camp program for High School students.
- This project is supported by federal funds received from HRSA, Division of Nursing under the Nursing Workforce Diversity program.
- In this particular grant program, three areas must be addressed and all strategies are aimed at increasing the number of minority and disadvantaged students in nursing. Strategies aimed at retention focus on students enrolled in the nursing program. Strategies for Pre-entry preparation are aimed at individuals who are striving to get into a nursing program and includes pre-nursing and high school students. The third area involves the awarding of stipends and scholarships to nursing, pre-nursing and high school students. Today, we are sharing our Summer Nursing Boot Camp program which is a pre-entry activity aimed at recruiting minority and disadvantaged high school students into nursing.
- Our objectives are to:
- It hasn’t been difficult to support the need for our summer nursing camp. Georgia has one of the lowest public high school graduation rates nationwide. You can see some of the statistics here as well as Georgia’s ranking among the 50 states in terms of high school graduation.
- Another need for the summer camp is based on the population demographics in Georgia and especially in Clayton County where CSU is located and where we have the summer camp. Overall, Georgia represents a white majority. Clayton county, on the other hand, has a majority minority population where over 71% of the individuals are of an ethnic minority.
- Although the high school graduation rates in Georgia have been lower than in many other states, there is evidence that demonstrates that this changing. With the graduation rates improving in Clayton County, we see an opportunity to recruit these diverse high school graduates into college and ultimately the nursing program. The Summer Boot camp is a way for us to do this.
- Since 2002, we have been fortunate to have received federal funding through the nursing workforce diversity grant program to support our summer camp. Over the years, we have been able to refine the process of selecting our camp participants. Involving the health occupation teachers at selected high schools has given us access to some highly qualified high school students that we would be delighted to recruit into the nursing profession. Katrina, me, and our grants manager, Toni Dixon begin making contact and visiting the high schools in January and February of each year. We take brochures and applications to the actual classes and pass them out. We tell the students about HRSA’s eligibility criteria for participation. They have to be from a minority or disadvantaged group; parents have to be in a certain income bracket, for example. The Health occupation teachers also make recommendations. Katrina and I make the final decision on who is selected to participate.
- It’s nice having validation that what we are doing to recruit high school students into nursing is an effective means. I consulted the literature for the design of the boot camp activities and just to see in general, if what we have been doing over the last few years is what we should be doing in the camp. I have found that the literature supports a summer camp as an effective means for recruiting high school students into nursing.
- This was important information for us to know in designing the types of camp activities that Katrina is going to share with you in just a few moments.
- If you are interested in designing a summer camp, There are some excellent examples of summer camps for high school students in the nursing literature.
- Their camp focus on minority disadvantaged students where the goal was to provide students enough information about nursing so they could make an informed decision. Read specific activities. One of the things that impressed me is that they are continually tracking their high school participants over time to see what career they chose.
- Here’s another program aimed at recruiting minority/disadvantaged students into the nursing program. In this case, they focused on middle and high school students and their goal was to provide them information about nursing and also what it’s like to be a college student. Focusing on the college experience is very important because many of the students we recruit are first generation college students.
- Here is an article that focused on high risk students with ESL dropping out of high school, rather than focusing on recruiting the best and the brightest students to the camp (which is what we do at CSU). I like how they involved the currently enrolled nursing students to introduce high school students to some of the things that nurses do. I think it is so much more effective when high school students can talk to nursing students. They are closer in age and the nursing students still remember what it was like going through high school and trying to get in college.
- Here is another example of where the authors’ purpose was to introduce students to academics and nursing.
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