PHILLIPS SCHOOL OF NURSING AWARDED $1.8 MILLION NURSING WORKFORCE DIVERSITY GRANT
The Phillips School of Nursing at Mount Sinai Beth Israel (PSON) has been awarded more than $1.8 million over four years from the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) to build on the school’s efforts in recruiting a diverse group of students and further creating an equitable environment. The grant is made possible through the Nursing Workforce Diversity Program, which helps to recruit, support, retain, and graduate nursing students from disadvantaged backgrounds including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented in nursing.
This HRSA grant extends and builds on PSON’s previous successful program, Workforce Inclusion in Nursing (WIN), introduced in 2017. WIN scholarships are available to students in the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program (ABSN) along with a monthly stipend. Academic and social support programs also underwritten by the grant are available to all students. The ABSN program is open only to students with a prior bachelor’s degree. It’s a rigorous 15-month program that leaves little time to work while in school. WIN scholars will enjoy significantly reduced financial worries and loan debt.
The WIN program is a comprehensive strategy of financial support and services to improve student outcomes and includes:
- Recruiting and supporting a diverse faculty
- Utilizing a holistic review admissions process
- Providing scholarships underwriting more than 70 percent of tuition along with monthly stipends
- Offering group and individual academic and social support programs both remotely and onsite; these include tutoring, a Writing Center, and career development
- Mentoring by clinical nurses within the Mount Sinai Health System
- Extending opportunities for employment at Mount Sinai to nursing graduates, both pre-and-post licensure.
The WIN program helps respond to PSON’s larger goal, which is to contribute to the development of a highly skilled, adept, and agile professional nursing workforce that reflects, and is prepared to serve, our region—and our nation’s—diverse communities in order to decrease health disparities and increase health equity.
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 600 research and clinical labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time—discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians and 11 free-standing joint-venture centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida. Hospitals within the System are consistently ranked by Newsweek’s® “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals, Best in State Hospitals, World Best Hospitals and Best Specialty Hospitals” and by U.S. News & World Report's® “Best Hospitals” and “Best Children’s Hospitals.” The Mount Sinai Hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report® “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll for 2023-2024.
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