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The TAKE PRIDE Campaign
It goes without saying that we value diversity here at Minority Nurse, and that's why we've launched the Take Pride campaign to discover those hospitals and other healthcare facilities that go above and beyond in making sure they maintain a diverse and inclusive environment.
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Talking to Korean Parents about the HPV Vaccine
How to broach the subject of HPV vaccinations with parents concerned about their daughters' sexuality
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Elsie Soto, RN: 40 Years of Home Care in Nueva York
In 2011, veteran public health nurse Elsie Soto, R.N., became something of a nurse celebrity...
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Caring for Our Aging Population
As the population ages in unprecedented numbers and is living longer than at any other time in history, the field of gerontological nursing is facing big changes with staffing needs and day-to-day practices.
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Health Care Reform One Year Later
Last summer saw the historic passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But what is to become of this hotly contested legislation?
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Obesity: The Weight of the Matter
The Fort Bend County Black Nurses Association celebrates the 10th anniversary of their fight against today’s most serious public health problem, obesity.
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Trust: The Barrier Between Minorities and Clinical Research
Given the major health issues disproportionately affecting minorities, there are life-altering reasons to target such communities for clinical trials and research. But doing so requires combating lingering mistrust, reaching out to neighborhood allies, and even educating yourself.
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An Exploratory Study of Student Nurses' Perceptions of Gender
Though they may be half a world away, nursing schools in India face problems similar to those in the United States when it comes to recruiting men. The results of this research of nursing students in Pondicherry, India, may surprise you.
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Diversity: A Public Health Issue
It's no secret that health care professionals must identify, respect, and care about their patients' differences, values, preferences, and expressed needs. Some patients' backgrounds might be similar to those of the care provider and some may be different. It's the differences that cry out for attention.
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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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Diverse Peoples, Diverse Needs: A History of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York
A look back at Lillian Wald's groundbreaking organization
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English Language Learners: Uneven Odds
Nursing Programs are demanding, particularly for students whose first language is not English.
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Looking for Black Nurses Leaders: A Call to Action
The nurses who authored Advancing the Dream through Faculty Diversity and this article, each reached out to Minority Nurse in search of a place to share their experiences as nurses, as African Americans. From different areas of the country and different professional backgrounds, never knowing one another, they both submitted abstracts that put forth the same beliefs and arguments, grounded in a desire to improve diversity in the workplace as a means to improve the quality of life in the black community.
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The Effects of Mentoring on Minority Nurse Recruitment
Increasing the ethnic minorities within the nursing and health care professions will increase access to care, allowing providers to communicate more effectively, incorporate cultural differences, and provide higher quality care to these populations
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Networking Nurses
Facebook, Twitter, blogs, online forums, podcasts, smartphones, wikis...social networking is all around us, impacting our lives and careers in new ways daily. Telenursing is gaining momentum, and it will continue to do so as health care enters the digital age
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Inspired Toward Nursing: Culturally Responsive Community-Based Learning
Exploring the key elements for culturally responsive community-based learning
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In the Field: Hospice Team Targets Manhattan’s Chinatown
How registered nurses and other clinicians from the VNSNY Asian Hospice team care for patients and their families in New York City's Chinatowns
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Culturally Competent Nurse Anesthesia Care
The changing demographics of the citizens of the United States compels health care providers to adapt and deliver culturally competent care to underrepresented minorities, particularly in the nurse anesthesia profession.
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Thinking Outside the Cultural Comfort Zone
In this Guest Editorial, pharmacology professor Rev. Steven K. Wheeler, MSN, RN, stresses the importance of respect and open-mindedness in nursing professionals toward all cultural traditions.
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Minority Women and Intimate Partner Violence
Nurses can play an important role in developing culturally sensitive interventions to help victims of physical, sexual and emotional abuse
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