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Retirement Planning for Minority Nurses
Will you and your family be able to live comfortably when you’re ready to retire from the profession?
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Providing Cultural Competency Training for Your Nursing Staff
Should you use an existing training program, hire a consultant to develop one for you or create your own program in-house? Here’s what the experts recommend.
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The Feminization of AIDS: Why Our Sisters are Suffering
A nursing student reflects on the crisis of rising HIV and AIDS rates among African American women.
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Nurses vs. HIV/AIDS Disparities: Interventions that Work
In part one of an exclusive two-part series, we showcase the innovative work of minority nurses who are creating successful solutions for improving HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in communities of color.
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Sihtoskatowin: “Supporting One Another” to Build Research Capacity
A unique collaborative program in Saskatchewan, Canada, is helping Native nursing students north of the border prepare to become nurse researchers.
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Minority Nurse Educators in Cyberspace: A Progress Report
Now entering its third year, an innovative federally funded program designed to increase nursing students’ access to ethnically diverse faculty is a steadily growing success
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We Belong Together
Why should you join a minority nursing association? Networking opportunities are one of the biggest benefits, and that’s just the beginning.
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The Minority Student’s Guide to CRNA Programs
How to get in, how to survive and how to find a program that welcomes diversity.
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To Be Continued: Creating Sustainability for Grant-Funded Programs
Congratulations! You’ve just been awarded a grant to fund the project of your dreams. But will you be able to keep your program alive and well after the grant money runs out?
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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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Shaping the Future of Patient Care
From implementing new specialty units to creating more patient-centered policies and services, nurse executive Diane Johnson’s innovative leadership is helping her hospital transform care throughout the organization.
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Mentoring New Nursing Graduates
The key to being a successful preceptor is to teach new nurses the same way you treat your patients--with respect, understanding and compassion.
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Filling a Need for Leaders
A unique collaboration between the National Association of Hispanic Nurses and the American Organization of Nurse Executives is helping the next generation of Hispanic nurses prepare to move into leadership roles
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Till Death Do Us Part
Compared to their white counterparts, terminally ill Americans of color are much less likely to receive the comfort of hospice care as they near the end of life. By choosing careers in hospice and palliative nursing, minority nurses can play a key role in helping to bridge this gap.
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Minority Nurse Retention in Doctoral Programs: What Works and Why
A review of the nursing literature reveals many proven strategies that have helped nursing schools increase minority doctoral students’ chances of staying the course and completing their degrees.
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Majoring in Minority Health
Not so long ago, topics like minority health disparities and serving the needs of diverse patient populations were rarely taught in nursing classrooms. Today, a growing number of nursing schools are not only incorporating minority health into their curricula, they’re building whole degree programs around it.
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From “Small-Town Girl” to Pioneering Nurse Educator
Dr. May L. Wykle, the first African American dean of Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, talks to Minority Nurse about how she overcame prejudice to pursue her nursing education and why she has made it her lifelong mission to bring more minority students into the profession.
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Celebrating Excellence: Past, Present and Future
The National Black Nurses Association’s Institute of Excellence is more than just a showcase for the outstanding achievements of African American nursing leaders--it’s also helping to increase opportunities for future leadership development.
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Academic Forum: Be Prepared
An innovative program in Michigan is helping to make sure minority students have the skills they need to succeed in nursing school--before they even graduate from high school.
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Culture, Grief and Bereavement: Applications for Clinical Practice
Understanding how cultural differences affect the way bereaved patients and families express their grief is an important part of providing culturally competent nursing care.
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