The report also recommended strategies to increase the number and diversity of nurse faculty, scientists, and researchers. Report on the future of nursing urged academic leaders to implement measured aimed at the recruitment and retention of nursing students from diverse backgrounds. The significantly low number of BNs in senior leadership and faculty positions points to the prevalence of Eurocentric stereotypes in leadership and faculty hiring in the nursing profession. However, the Institute for Diversity in Health Management benchmarking national survey of over 6000 US hospitals indicates only 14% of hospital board members, 11% of hospital executive leaders, and 19% of first and mid‐level managers identified as an ethnic minority (2016). The exact number of BN leaders in practice and academic settings have not been specifically reported. Similarly, the NLN nursing faculty census survey of Registered Nurses for 2017 indicated that only 8.8% of nursing faculty are African American compared to 80.8% Caucasian. The National League for Nursing (NLN) report suggests that nurse ethnic diversity is limited to the frontline nursing staff. There were approximately four million registered nurses in the US in 2017, of which 19.3% identified as an ethnic minority, and only 6.2% identified as Black or African American, less than half their representation in the US population of 13.3%.
The overall number of ethnic minority nurses has increased in the United States (US), but the number of Black nurses (BN) leaders and faculty have remained significantly low.
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