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Using Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Analysis to Pursue a Doctor of Nursing Practice Education

A priority for the nursing profession is to produce a workforce reflecting the increasing diversity of the US population. The Future of Nursing report from the Institute of Medicine recommends that nurses achieve higher levels of education, especially the doctoral degree, to respond to the increasingly complex demands of the healthcare system. Specifically, it recommended doubling the number of nurses with a doctoral degree by 2020. The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree positions advanced practice nurses (clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives, nurse practitioners) to meet complex population healthcare demands. However, the DNP candidate pool is not reflective of US diversity, which in turn affects DNP nurses' contributions to reducing health disparities. Minorities are projected to comprise 57% of the US population in 2060, but the American Association of Colleges of Nursing report, 2018–2019 Enrollment and Graduations in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing, states that nurses from minority backgrounds most recently represented only 34.6% of all DNP students in the United States. To grow and diversify the nursing doctoral pool, nursing education pipeline programs target minority candidates. The literature on programs to recruit and retain underrepresented nursing students primarily focuses on undergraduate pipeline interventions. A few programs will be described.