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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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Men in Nursing School
Six gender minority nursing students and one recent graduate share their strategies for success in a female-dominated academic environment
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Men in Nursing School
Six gender minority nursing students and one recent graduate share their strategies for success in a female-dominated academic environment
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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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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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Healing Troubled Minds
Are you looking for an opportunity to help change the lives of some of the most vulnerable patients in the entire health care system? Consider psychiatric-mental health nursing—a specialty with an urgent need for more minority nurses.
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What Works Best
Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is the most recent tool the federal government has added to its arsenal of strategies for eliminating minority health disparities. The question is:
Can it deliver?
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Taking the Helm
Dr. Antonia Villarruel, the new president of the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA), is proud of the landmark organization’s past accomplishments—but she’s even more excited about its future
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Following in Her Footsteps
In the mid 20th century, Goldie Brangman became a barrier-breaking trailblazer for equal opportunity in the nurse anesthesia profession. Today, at age 92, she continues to serve as an inspiration to minority CRNAs.
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The Indian Health Service Wants You
Nurses of all races and ethnicities can find rewarding, culturally rich career opportunities helping the IHS fulfill its mission of improving health outcomes for American Indians and Alaska Natives
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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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