facilitating research by african-american undergraduate students
DESCRIPTION
Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students. Lynette M. Gibson Ph.D., RN Associate Professor Mary Black School of Nursing University of South Carolina Upstate. Objectives. Describe the rationale for undergraduate research. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
![Page 2: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Facilitating Research by African-American
Undergraduate Students
Lynette M. Gibson Ph.D., RNAssociate Professor
Mary Black School of NursingUniversity of South Carolina Upstate
![Page 3: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Objectives
1. Describe the rationale for undergraduate research.
2. Describe the rationale for undergraduate research by African-American nursing students.
3. Discuss a philosophy of mentorship with undergraduate research students.
4. Describe results of engagement with undergraduate students in research.
![Page 4: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Rationale for Undergraduate Student Research
Needed!!! Nursing students, faculty, nurse researchers
Greater numbersBetter preparationMore diversity
![Page 5: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Rationale for Diversity
12.6% of full-time nursing school faculty from minority backgrounds (AACN, 2010).
Healthcare professionals from racial and ethnic minority groups more successful in recruiting minority patients to participate in clinical research (IOM, 2003).
“The rationale for increasing diversity in the health workforce is evident: increased diversity will improve the overall health of the nation”
(Sullivan Commission 2004, page 3).
![Page 6: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Rationale for Diversity
• The need to attract diverse nursing students is paralleled by the need to recruit more faculty from minority populations. Few nurses from racial/ethnic minority groups with advanced nursing degrees pursue faculty careers (AACN, 2011a).
![Page 7: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Rationale for Terminal Degree• Although 13% of nurses hold a graduate degree,
fewer than 1% (28,369 nurses) have a doctoral degree in nursing or a nursing-related field (AACN, 2010).
• Only 555 students graduated with a PhD in nursing in 2009, has remained constant for the past decade (AACN, 2009).
• Key roles for PhD nurses include teaching future generations of nurses and conducting research that becomes the basis for improvements in nursing practice (AACN, 2011b).
![Page 8: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Boyer Commission (1998; 2003)
Opportunities to participate in research and creative activities are an established component of undergraduate programs.
Research-based learning not limited to completion of specific projects; can take place whenever faculty and students share the act of discovery
Should be available to all students; not just honors or special students (The Boyer Commission, 2003)
![Page 9: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
The Case for Undergraduate Nursing Research
BSN students understand the basic elements of evidence-based practice, can work with others
to identify potential research problems, and can collaborate on research teams (AACN, 2008).
![Page 10: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Creating Research Opportunities…
Research work/mentorship programs combine aspects of honors programs and research assistant opportunities.
Create synergistic opportunities.
In exchange for receiving extra help from bright students, faculty are responsible to create an infrastructure designed to help students develop researcher behaviors. (Vessey & Demarco, 2008)
![Page 11: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Undergraduate Nursing Research Developing Passion
Demonstrate an understanding of the basic elements of the research process and models for applying evidence to clinical practice. (AACN, 2008).
“The research attitude begins on the undergraduate level” (Carnegie, 1974).
![Page 12: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Undergraduate Research Developing Passion…
Undergraduate research programs are necessary for undergraduate students to develop a
passion, for the discovery of new knowledge and its application to practice (Vessey & Demarco, 2008)
![Page 13: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Engaging Undergraduate Research Students
Engage students and faculty as partners in the discovery of new knowledge (Vessey & Demarco, 2008).
All students should participate regardless of academic course loads or financial need (Vessey & Demarco, 2008).
Help undergraduates begin to see key aspects of the researcher role through real participation through individualized engaged development. (Vessey & Demarco, 2008).
![Page 14: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Engaging Undergraduate Research Students
The research enterprise can thrive only when certain prerequisites are in place, including a culture supportive of research and scholarship; strong
mentoring in the intellectual work of the discipline (AACN Position on Nursing Research, 2006).
![Page 15: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Philosophy of Mentorship
“Crab theory”Reach back and pull forwardSharing of self with otherMutual, synergistic relationshipGoal oriented
![Page 16: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Profile: USC Upstate Mary Black School of Nursing
Largest baccalaureate nursing program in SC 440 pre-licensure students 102 RN-BSN students Spring 2012 Admission rate for African-American students – 9% Matriculation rate for African-American students - 9.9%
![Page 17: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Methods Three African-American undergraduate senior nursing
students
Invited to participate after completing nursing research course
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) with African-American women
![Page 18: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Research Study
1. Quasi-experimental pre and post-test longitudinal design with African-American women over 35 from churches and community organizations
2. “Save Our Breasts” Forum - culturally specific intervention with information on key epidemiological factors, myths, barriers to, and facilitators of breast cancer screening
![Page 19: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Research Study
3. Surveys on breast health knowledge, beliefs, fear, mammography self-efficacy, fatalism, and mammography intention measured prior to, immediately after, and three to six months after “Save Our Breasts”
4. Spiritual/religiosity measured before the forum
![Page 20: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
The Students…
Hadassa Legrand, RN, BSN, CCRN
Crystal Humbert, RN, BSN
Danielle Harris, RN, BSN
![Page 21: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Hadassa Legrand, RN, BSN, CCRNDeveloped recruitment questionnaire Award-winning poster at the USC Upstate
Undergraduate Research Symposium
![Page 22: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Hadassa Legrand, RN, BSN, CCRN
![Page 23: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Hadassa Legrand, RN, BSN, CCRN
Legrand, H., & Gibson, L. (2010). Community-based participatory recruitment methods for African-American women. University of South Carolina Upstate Undergraduate Research Journal, 3, 61-64.
![Page 24: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Hadassa Legrand, RN, BSN, CCRNLegrand, H., & Gibson, L. Social Networking as a Means of
Community-Based Participatory Recruitment of African-American women. Symposium Presented at the Southern Nursing Research Society Conference, February 2011
Hadassa Legrand, RN, BSN, CCRN
![Page 25: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Crystal Humbert, RN, BSNUniversity of South Carolina
Magellan Scholar
Research opportunities in all disciplines Faculty mentoring relationships & professional
research experience Students can creatively explore interests at a more in-
depth level than can be attained in the classroom
![Page 26: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Crystal Humbert, Magellan Scholar
Crystal Humbert, Fourth Year, Nursing, USC Upstate Mentor: Dr. Lynette Gibson, Nursing, USC Upstate Breast cancer beliefs and mammography screening intentions in African-American women
![Page 27: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Crystal Humbert, RN, BSNUSC System Magellan Scholar
![Page 28: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Crystal Humbert, RN, BSN
USC Upstate Office of Sponsored Programs Mini-Grants for Undergraduate Research Students
Breast Cancer Beliefs and Mammography Screening Intention In African American Women
The Effect of the “Save Our Breasts” Forum on Breast Cancer Beliefs, Fear, and Fatalism in African-American Women
![Page 29: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Crystal Humbert, RN, BSN…“Save Our Breasts” Forum
“I am more comfortable speaking in
public…I feel as though I have
made a positive difference in the women’s lives”
(Crystal Humbert, Magellan Scholar)
![Page 30: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
“Save Our Breasts” Forum
“The Magellan Scholar Program has
enabled me to do research that I otherwise might not
have done” (Crystal Humbert, Magellan Scholar)
![Page 31: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Crystal Humbert RN, BSNHumbert, C., & Gibson, L. The Effect of the "Save Our
Breasts" Forum on Breast Cancer Beliefs, Fear, and Fatalism in African-American Women. Oncology Nursing Society Biennial Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 2011.
![Page 32: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Crystal Humbert, RN, BSN Discovery Day Poster Presentation – USC System, Columbia, SC
Culturally Appropriate Interventions and Recruitment Strategies to Promote Mammography in African American Women Crystal Humbert, Student Nurse, Research Assistant, Lynette Gibson, Ph.D., RN, Research Advisor
Humbert, C. (2009). Breast cancer beliefs and mammography screening intention by African-American women (2009). Upstate Research Symposium, September 2009, Greenville, SC.
![Page 33: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Danielle Harris, RN, BSNHarris, D., & Gibson, L.
(2011). Breast cancer fear, fatalism, and spirituality in African-American women, Seventh Annual SC Upstate Research Symposium, March 2011.
![Page 34: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Danielle Harris, RN, BSN
Harris, D., & Gibson, L. (2011). Breast cancer fear, fatalism, and spirituality in African-American women, USC Upstate Undergraduate Research Journal, IV, 39-42.
![Page 35: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Continued Dissemination
Manuscripts being completed Social networking Social Networking as a Means
of Community-Based Participatory Recruitment of African-American women
(Legrand & Gibson) Breast cancer beliefs and mammography
intention of African-American women
(Humbert & Gibson)
![Page 36: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Future Career Plans
Hadassa Legrand, RN, BSN, CCRN, awaiting decision for Nurse Anesthetist Program
Danielle Harris, RN, BSN, awaiting decision for Master’s Degree Program in Nursing Administration
Crystal Humbert, RN, BSN, continuing to gain clinical experience; plans for graduate school
![Page 37: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Faculty Should…
Entice undergraduate African-American students to conduct CBPR Eliminate health disparities Promote health in a culturally appropriate manner
Increase number of African-American nurses with the terminal degree
Add to cadre of African-American nurse researchers and scholars
![Page 38: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
ReferencesAmerican Association of Colleges of Nursing (2006). AACN position statement on nursing
research. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/publications/position/NsgResearch.pdf
American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2008). The essentials of baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media-relations/fact-sheets/enhancing-diversity
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2009). The Institute of Medicine committee on institutional and policy-level strategies for increasing the diversity of the U.S. health care workforce. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Government/Testimony/BednashTestimony.htm.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2011a). Enhancing Diversity in the Workforce. Washington, DC: Author.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2011b). The future of higher education in nursing: Annual report. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/IDS/pdf/EthnicityTbl.pdf.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2012). AACN’s Institutional Data Systems and Research Center (IDS). Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/research-data
![Page 39: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
ReferencesCarnegie, M. E. (1974). The research attitude begins on the undergraduate level. Nursing
Research, 23, 99.
Institute of Medicine (2003). Unequal treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University (2003).
Reinventing undergraduate education: Three years after the Boyer Report. Retrieved from http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/bitstream/handle/1951/26013/Reinventing+Undergraduate+Education+(Boyer+Report+II).pdf?sequence=1
The Sullivan Commission (2004). The Sullivan Commission’s Report on Health Profession Diversity. Washington, DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Sullivan Commission (2004). Missing Persons: Minorities in the Health Professions. Washington, DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2010). The registered nurse population, 2010. Retrieved from http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/rnsurveys/rnsurveyfinal.pdf
Vessey, J. A., & Demarco, R. F. (2008). The undergraduate research fellows program: A unique model to promote engagement in research. Journal of Professional Nursing, 24(6), 358–363. doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2008.06.003
![Page 40: Facilitating Research by African-American Undergraduate Students](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081512/568148bf550346895db5dba8/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)