Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Nursing Workforce: One Pediatric Hospital's Strategic Approach.

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.

Subject Matter Experts Identify Health Equity Concerns in Breastfeeding for African American Women.

Although the rate of breastfeeding initiation in the United States has continued to rise since 1972, African American mothers continue to experience a significant disparity in initiation. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of the facilitators and barriers of breastfeeding initiation among African American mothers from the perspective of subject matter experts (SMEs). This study was part of a larger study that also involved focus group methodology with African American women.

Nurses' Views on Using Pasteurized Donor Human Milk for Hypoglycemic Term Infants.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore maternal child nurses' knowledge and beliefs about using pasteurized donor human milk (PDHM) to treat newborns with hypoglycemia. Pasteurized donor human milk has been used for decades in neonatal intensive care units, but its use is relatively new in the well-baby population.

Study Design And Methods: Focus groups of maternal child nurses were conducted to explore this topic.

Factors That Influence Breastfeeding Initiation Among African American Women.

Objective: To examine cultural and socioenvironmental factors that affect breastfeeding initiation among African American women.

Design: Qualitative descriptive design and conventional content analysis.

Setting: A large, inner-city, primary care center affiliated with a 500-bed children's hospital within a large, Northeastern U.

Improving nurse retention in a large tertiary acute-care hospital.

In an era of constrained resources and shortages of nurses, reducing staff turnover and increasing satisfaction of RNs are critical. The authors discuss the implementation of 5 change concepts that resulted in a 91% reduction in voluntary nurse turnover, yielding a savings of $655,949.