Implications for practice and research

• Diversity training is needed for nurse educators; the numbers of nursing faculty from ethnic minority groups should be increased.

• Research is needed to identify best practices for equitable academic opportunities for ethnic and cultural minority nursing students.

Context

There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that ethnic and cultural minority students face multiple, unique challenges in completing an undergraduate degree in nursing. The challenges include discrimination, language barriers, social and cultural marginalisation and a lack of culturally sensitive academic support.1 Little is known about the experiences of migrant status students in Scandinavian undergraduate nursing programmes. The …