Problem statement
The literature has revealed that nurses who share their cultural background can easily get
response from patients (Colby & Ortman, 2014). However, the rate of graduation of these nurses
is lower to work in the field. A mentoring program for this group needs to be investigated to
understand whether they are facing difficulties in getting appropriate training to pass the Nursing
Certification Licensure Examination (NCLEX) and are successfully mentored post-graduation or
not. Graduates who do not complete the NCLEX requirements remain unlicensed and cannot
practice as a registered or vocational nurse (Cervantes, Padilla, & Salgado de Snyder, 2015;
Degazon & Mancha, 2012). This inability to achieve academic and professional success is
another outcome of nonlicensure (Dapremont, 2013; Evans, 2013; Phillips & Malone, 2014). The
benefits of mentoring arewell-documented; however, research specific to mentoring minority
nursing students, the effectiveness of actualizing an acceptable score on the licensure exam, and
the success of the students post-graduation remains limited (Tabi, Thornton, Garno, & Rushing,
2013). Academic nursing program leaders invest thousands of hours in retention and remediation
in aiding nursing students in staying in schools. Hospital leaders spend added funds to retain
newly licensed nurses’ post-graduation (Unruh,Zhang, & Chisolm, 2016).
In the US, more than 100 million people have been recognized as racial and ethnic
minorities (Colby & Ortman, 2014). The U.S. population post graduation is diverse, yet the
ethnic breakdown of nursing personnel does not mirror the population (Condon et al., 2013; The
HHS Advisory Committee on Minority Health [ACMH], 2011; Sutherland, Hamilton, &
Goodman, 2007). The need for a diverse group of nurses has increased for providing care
support to patients from different cultural backgrounds. Minority nurses (MN) may prefer to
deliver care to these people (Condon et al., 2013; Gibson-Graham, Cameron, & Healy, 2013;
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