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Community Outreach
Many community college nursing programs have high dropout rates, and retaining students of color can be particularly challenging. Here’s what some schools are doing to help increase their minority students’ chances for success.
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A Win-Win Partnership, VA Style
The Department of Veterans Affairs, one of the nation’s largest employers of minority nurses, is teaming up with nursing schools for a unique educational collaboration: the VA Nursing Academy
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A Guide on the Journey to Womanhood
Nurse practitioner Mary Arnold’s innovative "Girltalk" workshops help young girls and their families prepare for the challenges of puberty
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An Open Letter to Historically Black Nursing Schools
Why now is the time to consider starting a nurse anesthesia program
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Yes You Can (Succeed in Nurse Anesthesia School)
No one ever said that earning a master's degree in nurse anesthesia is easy, but it doesn't have to be the impossible dream. Five minority anesthesia graduates who have "been there" share their personal strategies for successfully navigating a nurse anesthesia program—and completing it.
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Paperwork
Reviews of Transforming Nursing Education: The Culturally Inclusive Environment; Susan Dandridge Bosher, PhD, MA, and Margaret Dexheimer Pharris, PhD, RN, MPH, FAAN (Editors) and Real Nurses and Others: Racism in Nursing by Tania Das Gupta, PhD
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Editor's Notebook
Are We Scapegoating Foreign-Educated Nurses?
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Directing Our Destiny
The Philippine Nurses Association of America marks its 30th year of advocacy and activism on behalf of Filipino nurses in the U.S. and around the world
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Nurses, Culture and Cancer
Through culturally competent outreach, education, research and patient care, nurses can make a dramatic difference in reducing minority cancer disparities
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Preventing Premature Birth Disparities
How nurses can address the growing crisis of high preterm birth rates in minority women and help give infants of all colors an equal chance for a healthy start in life
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Save Big on Your Nursing Textbooks
Our textbook search engine scours the Web for the best deal on any textbook. Save hundreds of dollars this semester by comparing prices across campus booksellers nationwide.
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Apply for the 2010 Minority Nurse Scholarship Program
At Minority Nurse, we believe the baccalaureate is the degree that opens the most doors of opportunity for nurses of color. That’s why we offer an annual scholarship program to help outstanding students complete their studies leading to a BSN degree.
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Standing Up for the Right to Be Ourselves
Gay nurses bring diversity and unique perspectives to the nursing workplace.
So why should they have to play “don’t ask, don’t tell” at work?
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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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A Starring Role Model
Inspired by her mother, a real-life nurse, actress Jada Pinkett Smith is boosting the visibility of minority nurses in the media as the star and executive producer of TNT’s “HawthoRNe”
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Historically Black Nursing Schools: Yesterday and Today
Back in the days when segregation was the law of the land, they opened
doors of educational opportunity that produced generations of distinguished
African American nurses. Today, HBCU nursing programs are building on
that legacy to prepare the black nursing leaders of the 21st century
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Minority Women and Lupus
Women of color have higher incidence rates of this serious autoimmune disease than their white counterparts. They also tend to have a more severe and aggressive form of the disease. What role can nurses play in helping to fight lupus disparities?
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Body and Soul
For a dedicated group of parish nurses in Mississippi, educating communities of color about health promotion and disease prevention isn’t a job—it’s a spiritual calling
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Putting Minority Health into Health Reform
Health reform efforts must focus not just on insurance coverage but on closing the gap of unequal health outcomes between Americans of color and their white counterparts.
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Something Old, Something New
The well-established role of clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and the emerging role of clinical nurse leader (CNL) both offer nurses an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference in improving minority health outcomes
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