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Treating Muslims with Cultural Sensitivity in a Post-9/11 World
From respecting patients’ religious needs to accommodating Muslim nurses’ dress requirements, understanding the role of Islam in Muslims’ lives is an essential cultural competency skill.
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Creating a Sacred Space
Nurses who work with minority populations must learn to balance technology with spirituality.
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The Power of a Pear
Using a culturally competent approach and an unusual teaching aid, a nurse educator in New Orleans is helping both African-American and Taiwanese women reduce their risk of developing cervical cancer.
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Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day Targets African Americans
Physicians across the nation can expect to be busier than usual this fall, thanks to a new health promotion campaign launched by the federal Office of Minority Health (OMH).
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“Getting to the Heart” of Culturally Competent Care
There are currently some 500 American Indian tribes in the U.S., each with its own unique cultural beliefs, customs and traditions...
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Northern Exposure
Although many researchers still group them together with American Indians, Alaska Natives are finally emerging as a population with its own identity and unique health care needs.
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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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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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Developing Nurse Leaders. . .in the Indian Way
Pathways to Leadership is a minority nurse leadership development program with an exciting difference: It’s a culturally competent curriculum created by--and for--American Indian nurses.
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Meeting Jewish and Muslim Patients’ Dietary Needs
Nurses’ sensitivity to these patients’ religious dietary requirements--and how strictly each individual patient chooses to follow them--can play an important role in the healing process
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The Role of Cultural Competency in Eliminating Health Disparities
By developing cultural proficiency, minority nurses can play a crucial role in helping patients of all races, ethnicities and cultures receive equal access to quality health care.
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Are NCLEX® Testing Policies Culturally Insensitive?
A Muslim nurse’s experience of bias while taking the boards underscores the need for test center regulations that acknowledge and respect candidates’ cultural differences
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Culture & Clinical Care
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Cultural Competence Q&A
Dietary Needs
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11 Ways to Provide Linguistically Competent Patient Education
Looking for patient education information written in Spanish, Chinese, Farsi, Hmong or other languages spoken by the ethnic populations your health care facility serves?
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Hindu Dietary Practices: Feeding the Body, Mind and Soul
Our series on culturally competent dietary assessments continues with a look at the world’s third largest religion’s beliefs about food and health.
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Understanding Buddhist Patients’ Dietary Needs
Understanding Buddhist Patients' Dietary Needs
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Careers in Rural Minority Health
From the Mississippi Delta to remote Indian reservations, rural communities of color are among the most medically underserved in the nation--and the need for more nurses is especially acute
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Click Here for Cultural Competence
Thanks to the new Culturally Competent Nursing Modules online training program, the skills nurses need to provide care to an increasingly diverse patient population have never been easier to learn--or to teach
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Trialblazers
An innovative new program in Columbus, Ohio, is focusing aggressively on eliminating racial and ethnic cancer disparities--with a special emphasis on increasing minority patients’ participation in clinical trials
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