Implementing and evaluating a culturally-focused curriculum in a collaborative graduate nursing program.

For more than a decade, nurses and nurse educators have been held to national and professional goals aimed at affirming diversity, integrating cultural competence, and closing the healthcare disparity gap. Faced with shrinking resources, meeting these goals has been harder to achieve. In September 2004, the Sullivan Commission report renewed attention to the widening gap in healthcare quality for America's growing minority population as well as the shortage of minority healthcare providers.