| Project Partners: |
Oregon Center for Nursing, Kaiser Permanente, Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing, Oregon Center for Nursing, Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing, Portland State University, Washington State University Vancouver
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| Project Leaders: |
Kristine K. Campbell, RN, PhD, Executive Director, OCN; campbelk@up.edu; 503.943.7184 Dawn Doutrich, RN, PhD, CNS, Associate Professor, WSU Vancouver; doutrich@vancouver.wsu.edu; 360.546.9464
Seiko Izumi, RN, PhD, Post-doctoral Fellow, OHSU School of Nursing; izumis@ohsu.edu; 503.494.3675
Jana Bitton, Program Manager, OCN; bitton@up.edu; 503.943.8772
April Lewis, MPA, Regional Diversity Manager, Kaiser Permanente; April.D.Lewis@kp.org; 503.813.3724
Masami Nishishiba, PhD, [Project Evaluator], Assistant Professor, Division of Public Administration; Assistant Director, Executive Leadership Institute Mark O. Hatfield School of Government; Portland State University; nishism@pdx.edu; 503.725.5151
Megan Schumaker, MBA, Senior Administrative Officer for Grants & Scholarships, OCF; MSchumaker@oregoncf.org; 503.227.6846
Peggy Wros, RN, PhD, Associate Dean, Professor, Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing; pwros@linfield.edu; 503.413.7180 |
Nurturing Cultural Competence in Nursing is a two-year small-grants project developed by the Oregon Center for Nursing and a local Nursing Workforce Diversity Task Force, a collaborative volunteer group comprising representatives of nursing schools and healthcare organizations in Oregon and southwest Washington. Grants will be awarded to help practicing nurses, nursing faculty and nursing students develop demonstration projects aimed at building cultural competency in the field. The growing diversity of the local population has created a pressing need for a more diverse and culturally competent nursing workforce.
This has been a goal of the Oregon Center for Nursing since its inception in 2002, and the issue has been the focus of $1 million in grants and scholarships awarded through The Oregon Community Foundation in the past five years. The two organizations will blend their areas of expertise in providing statewide nursing workforce leadership and managing grant programs to address Oregon’s nursing shortage via this innovative approach.
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The cultural competence of nurses, the largest component of the healthcare workforce, is increasingly important in order to deliver effective healthcare. As such, an important long-term goal of the project is to create supportive work environments to improve the recruitment and retention of nurses—both those from underrepresented populations and those struggling to serve underrepresented populations.
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