Nursing students need more role model leaders who have diverse cultural backgrounds. Because of the limited number of nurses in leadership positions who have diverse backgrounds, it is important that role models and collaborators be cultivated for student nurse learning.
Through a partnership with the Hmong Mutual Assistance Association, undergraduate nursing students and community leaders within the association have collaborated to write grants to work towards meeting the needs of the community. Nursing students work with the Hmong community to promote the health of children and families and funds are often needed for these health endeavors and other health-related activities of interest to the association. Therefore, leaders have requested that students assist in obtaining funds for providing health promotion services.
Through the process, the students and faculty member meet with the leaders in the organization to determine the health needs. Then the students obtain the assessment information for the grant through fact finding, literature reviews and interviews. Students meet with elders and health professionals to obtain information needed and to write drafts of the grants for review by the faculty member and the leaders in the community. Through this poster, five different grant and fundraising plans will be described. In addition, each student involved will describe learning through the process and one community leader will share his perspective on the grant-writing partnership.
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