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Dr. Nurse
As nursing schools nationwide focus their energies on increasing minority enrollment in doctoral programs, there’s never been a better time to advance your career by earning a PhD.
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Looking for a Few Good Men
Actually, the nursing profession will need to recruit a lot of good men if it hopes to reduce the nation’s serious RN shortage. Here’s how some nursing organizations are rising to the challenge.
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The Minority Student’s Guide to CRNA Programs
How to get in, how to survive and how to find a program that welcomes diversity.
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Teaching Nursing Students About Minority Health Disparities
When your students graduate and go out into the world, will they be ready, willing and able to join the fight against racial and ethnic health inequities? Here’s what some nursing educators are doing to make sure their students are prepared.
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From Minority Nurse to Nurse Practitioner
Because nurse practitioners are able to provide primary care and prescribe treatments, this advanced practice career can empower minority nurses to make an even bigger difference in eliminating health disparities
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Winning the Grad School Game
Choosing a graduate nursing program can be a daunting experience. Here’s how to find the program that’s right for you—and maximize your chances of getting in.
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Navigating the Faculty Track
For junior minority nursing faculty, advancing your career in academia can be fraught with challenges--from racial and gender prejudice to the pressures of earning tenure. Here’s some expert advice--from educators who have been there--to guide you down the path to success.
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Welcome to the Real World
Surviving the transition from nursing school to your first job as an RN can make the difference between a successful career and early burnout--especially for new minority and male nurses.
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Reach Out, We’ll Be There
From financial aid and mentors to more accessible classrooms, nursing schools are using creative strategies to attract—and keep—minority students
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Traditional Healer, Modern Nurse
As a psychiatric nurse specialist who is also a practicing curandera, Elena Avila combines today’s Western health care with ancient Mexican folk medicine for a uniquely spiritual approach to treating patients
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Recruiting and Retaining Minority Nursing Faculty
Because there are still so few minority and male nursing professors, nursing schools that hope to increase the diversity of their faculty face stiff competition and steep challenges. But despite the supply/demand imbalance, it can be done. The keys to success: commitment, creativity and cultural sensitivity.
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Honoring Diversity
Under the leadership of one of the nation’s most distinguished minority nurses, Sigma Theta Tau International launches a bold initiative to increase the racial, cultural and gender diversity of its membership
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A World of Opportunities
Working in foreign countries is a great way for minority nurses to learn new skills, experience other cultures and make a real difference in improving global health.
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An Untapped Potential
As America’s population continues to diversify and the RN work force continues to age, innovative programs are reaching out to the next generation of minority nurses
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Learning About Difference
A growing number of nursing schools are implementing cultural competency programs to prepare nursing students to care for a diverse patient population
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Student Power
Student nurses in the nation’s capital have launched an innovative campaign to recruit more men and people of color into nursing--with a little help from their local ANA chapter.
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Nurse, Teacher, Trailblazer
As the first African-American man to earn a PhD in nursing, Randolph Rasch broke down many barriers to achieve a successful career as a nursing educator. Now he’s helping other nurses follow in his footsteps.
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Where There’s Smoke
Individually and collectively, nurses can play a unique leadership role in reducing tobacco use in minority communities. Here’s how you can get involved.
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The Faculty Fast Track
A severe nursing faculty shortage, plus the need for greater diversity at the front of the classroom, are fueling the growth of master’s-level nurse educator training programs that can help get minority nurses into the teaching pipeline more quickly
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Recruiting Men into Nursing School
Nursing programs that have successfully increased the number of men in their student populations share their expert advice for attracting male students--and even more importantly, for keeping them.
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A Faster Path to the PhD
Accelerated BSN-to-PhD programs can help minority nurses get an earlier start on productive careers as nurse scientists.
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Practice Made Perfect
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degrees, a clinically focused alternative to the traditional nursing PhD, are opening new doors of opportunity for minority advanced practice nurses.
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To Be Continued: Creating Sustainability for Grant-Funded Programs
Congratulations! You’ve just been awarded a grant to fund the project of your dreams. But will you be able to keep your program alive and well after the grant money runs out?
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