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Nurses and Community Clinics
Community and public health nursing draws upon the very foundations of the profession: promoting preventive health care and serving the underserved. With the passage of health care reform, community clinics have seen increases across the board—including a growing need for nurses. Here we explore what working in one of these facilities is like and why they are so crucial to improving health care services and access for all.
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Breast Cancer: Finding the Roots of Disparities
Female breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among all races, yet mortality rates differ between ethnicities and early detection numbers falter among minorities. A challenging yet rewarding specialty, oncology nursing puts nurses against such inequalities.
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Turning the Tide: Teen Pregnancy in Minority Communities
With the number of teenage pregnancies on the rise again, particularly in minority communities, nurses are dedicating themselves to mentoring and teaching young mothers to reverse the trend.
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Closing the Immunization Gap
Immunization levels for minority children and adults still lag behind those of the majority population. Many federally funded initiatives are working to combat this disparity--and minority nurses are fighting in the front lines.
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Sisterhood Is Powerful
The Sister Study, a landmark national study investigating the causes of breast cancer, wants to recruit as racially and ethnically diverse a participant sample as possible. Here’s how nurses can help spread the word.
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Closing the Infant Mortality Gap
How nurses can play a leadership role in helping to eliminate one of the most tragic of racial and ethnic health disparities.
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The Case for Forensic Nursing
If you’re a fan of mystery novels and true-crime dramas, this exciting career that combines nursing with detective work and criminal law is well worth investigating.
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On the Cutting Edge of Care
As a Gamma Knife radiosurgery nurse, Evelyn Badran provides her patients with the best of two worlds: state of-the-art medical technology and compassionate, culturally sensitive nursing care
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Boomer in Chief
As the first Asian American president of AARP, Jennie Chin Hansen, RN, MS, FAAN, brings a unique combination of nursing expertise, advocacy and cultural competence to the national dialogue on ensuring quality health care for older Americans.
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Closing the Cancer Gap
By choosing careers in oncology nursing, nurses of color can not only help fill an urgent staffing need but also play a key role in addressing one of the nation’s most serious minority health disparities.
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21st Century Midwives
As the nurse-midwifery profession continues to grow, so does the need for more minority nurses to join their ranks
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Does the NCLEX-RN® Pass the Test for Cultural Sensitivity?
Some nursing leaders think the RN licensing exam fails to consider the needs of minority and international graduates. Others disagree. Who’s right?
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Old Enough to Learn Better
More minority students are entering nursing school later in life—but both students and educators agree that their age is an asset, not a liability
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Star Power
Whether they’re identifying barriers to mental health care or developing interventions for preventing cancer, AIDS and heart disease, these Emerging Nursing Stars in Health Disparities Research are helping to create a healthier future for Americans of color
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CLAS Action
Minority nurses can play a crucial role in implementing the new federal standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in health care. So why are so many nurses still unaware that these standards exist?
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Bringing Equal Health Outcomes within REACH
From Cambodian communities in New England to Indian tribes in Oklahoma, the REACH 2010 program is helping nurses make a major difference in improving the health of underserved populations.
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Gray Matters
As the nation’s elderly population soars, career opportunities for minority gerontology nurses will be everywhere—from the bedside to the classroom to the research lab
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Diamond Jubilee
Chi Eta Phi Sorority celebrates its 75th year of providing community service, fellowship and professional support for minorities in nursing.
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Ethnopharmacology: What Nurses Need to Know
Race, ethnicity and culture can have a significant impact on how patients respond to certain medications--and even on how doctors prescribe them.
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Health Disparities Research, Caribbean Style
With the support of a landmark federal grant, nurses at the University of the Virgin Islands are gearing up to confront this U.S. territory’s unique health disparities challenges
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Growing Our Own
By establishing innovative pre-recruitment programs at local high schools, more and more nursing schools are cultivating the next generation of minority nurses right in their own backyards.
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EXCEEDing the Standard
The federally funded EXCEED program is taking minority health disparities research to the next level--by turning information into intervention
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Closing the Cardiovascular Disease Gap
Experts agree that culturally competent preventive education can play a key role in reducing CVD disparities in minority communities. And who better to provide that education than nurses?
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Eyes on the Prize
The American Nurses Association’s Mary Mahoney Award honors nurses who--like its pioneering namesake--have made exceptional contributions to increasing opportunities for minorities in the profession
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