Background: The 2021 Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity recognizes increasing racial and ethnic diversity in nursing as an imperative to achieving health equity.
Practice Initiatives: Over a 3-year period, nursing and human resource leaders at Boston Children's Hospital, a tertiary care, 454-bed pediatric academic medical center in Massachusetts, developed, implemented, and evaluated specific strategies to increase racial and ethnic diversity in recruitment and hiring of the nursing workforce. These specific strategies focused on cultivating partnerships, building relationships with candidates, and supporting transition into practice.