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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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Online Higher Education: The Key to Training, Recruiting, and Retaining More Hispanic Nurses
Online education has made a big impact on the nursing profession, promoting more successful career development, particularly for Hispanic nurses.
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First Generation Education
There's no denying that pursuing higher education is a massive undertaking. For first-generation students, the College Assistance Migrant Program makes all the difference in the world
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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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Into the Ruins: Nurses in Haiti
Nurses and doctors came to Port-au-Prince from all over the world, joining relief workers and military personnel to pull a city of two million people from the wreckage
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Worth 1,000 Words
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Linguistic Competence and the Law
How nurses and hospitals that serve limited-English-speaking patients can protect themselves from translation liability
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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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Kids Come in All Colors
With the population of Americans under the age of 18 becoming more and more culturally diverse, minority pediatric nurses and nurse practitioners are in increasingly high demand.
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Open to Interpretation
From telephone language lines to video interpreting systems, a variety of options are available to help health care facilities eliminate language barriers and provide better care to patients with limited English proficiency
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In Our Own Backyard
Why should skilled nurses from Mexico and other countries have to work menial jobs in the U.S. because they lack licenses to practice here? Members of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses aren’t just asking that question—they’re doing something about it.
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"Patient Navigators" Help Increase Colon Cancer Screening Rates
In New York City, an innovative community-based cancer prevention initiative that utilizes bilingual "patient navigators" to guide participants through the process of receiving a colonoscopy is achieving remarkable results in increasing rates of colon cancer screening and early detection among the city’s minority populations.
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Editor’s Note
Time to Make the CLAS Standards Mandatory?
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Caring Across the Language Barrier
A Hispanic nursing student’s moving experience caring for a non-English-speaking patient illustrates why it’s so important to have ethnically diverse, bilingual nurses in our health care system.
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Making an Investment in Nursing
Juan Pineda, RN, always knew he wanted to work in health care, but his career path took a few detours along the way. After a stint in the finance industry, he finally found the way back to his true passion--nursing.
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