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Ten tips for recruiting minority registered nurses

Nurse Leader Weekly, March 8, 2004

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Your most valuable recruiting tool is your organization's reputation as a positive workplace. When minority candidates look at your hospital, how will they assess their chances of rising to positions of leadership? The following are ten tips for recruiting minority registered nurses (RNs).

• Recruit as early as possible. Teach young people of both genders that the nursing profession is highly respected and pays well.

• Recruit from nursing assistants, technicians, and others already in your hospital, and offer tuition assistance.

• Ask staff what they consider to be the strong points of the workplace as well as which areas could be improved.

• Target nursing schools that have done a good job of recruiting minority students.

• Develop a minority mentoring program.

• Examine your printed recruiting material. Does it present the right image to minority candidates?

• Who is doing the recruiting? If your facility claims to be a great place for minorities to work, can your recruiters attest to that from first-hand experience?

• Use your Web site to show the diversity of your facility. Highlight and profile nurses, both male and female, from a variety of ethnic groups, and their ability to rise throughout the organization.

• Attend job fairs targeted to minorities.

• Get involved with associations such as the National Black Nurses Association, www.nbna.org, the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, www.thehispanicnurses.org, and the Philippine Nurses Association of America, www.pnaa03.org.

When you have success in minority recruiting, share your secrets with others. You'll be seen as a great place for potential employees to consider working.

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