Offering a Path to Success for Everyone: Creating an Inclusive Environment in Nursing Education

Inclusion is the practice of providing equal access to opportunities and resources to those who might otherwise by excluded or marginalized. Students in our nursing education classrooms are in danger of being excluded due to many factors: poverty, race, religion, sexual preference, nationality, disabilities, culture, language, previous education, ideology, need to work, etc. It is our responsibility as nurse educators to purposefully create an inclusive learning environment in nursing education so that everyone we teach has a path to success.