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Career Cruisin’
Cruise ships offer minority nurses the opportunity to make paradise their workplace
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Teaching the Teachers
In a unique approach to preventive education, nurses are training minority medical students to teach women of color about breast cancer.
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An Army of One
How much of a difference can just one nurse make in fighting breast cancer disparities in her community? The answer is “plenty”--especially if she’s an instructor who gets her students involved.
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Reach Out, We’ll Be There
From financial aid and mentors to more accessible classrooms, nursing schools are using creative strategies to attract—and keep—minority students
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Resolving Differences Within Diversity
Providing culturally competent health care also means being sensitive to intra-ethnic conflicts between patients and providers
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Coming Together to Succeed
Support groups enhance the academic and career readiness of minority nursing students
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Mixed Messages
Are nursing programs doing enough to make minority students feel welcome?
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United We Stand
Minority representation in nursing unions is on the rise. But is joining a union right for you?
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A Lifetime’s Work
From conducting research that led to a cure for scarlet fever to being a founding member of the National Black Nurses Association, Mattiedna Johnson has had a knack for making history.
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Scholarships, Fellowships, Loans, Oh My!
Many options are available to help minority students meet the challenge of financing their nursing education. The key is knowing where—and how—to find them.
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Telecommuting
Nurses tap into developing technology to provide care from a distance.
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African Americans, Substance Abuse and Spirituality
Culturally sensitive research perspectives and treatment options are the key to closing the gap of substance abuse disparities in the black community
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Ever Upward
An innovative online college offers as unusual solution to the nursing shortage: helping minority medical technicians, LPNs and others move up to RN careers.
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Completing the Circle
America’s unprecedented multiculturalism is creating an urgent need for culturally competent end-of-life care—and for the cultural sensitivity that minority nurses can contribute.
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On the Front Lines of Diversity
A career in health care diversity management can help minority nurses move into leadership roles while fighting for equal opportunity.
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Taking the Initiative
By breaking down cultural barriers to health care and providing preventive education, nurses of color are helping to close minority health disparity gaps one patient at a time.
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Star Power
Whether they’re identifying barriers to mental health care or developing interventions for preventing cancer, AIDS and heart disease, these Emerging Nursing Stars in Health Disparities Research are helping to create a healthier future for Americans of color
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What Color Is Your Pain?
By using interventions that help overcome cultural and communication barriers, nurses can play a crucial role in helping minority patients move from pain management disparities to parity
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Traditional Healer, Modern Nurse
As a psychiatric nurse specialist who is also a practicing curandera, Elena Avila combines today’s Western health care with ancient Mexican folk medicine for a uniquely spiritual approach to treating patients
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A Cause for Celebration
The 10th anniversary of Howard University’s Mary Elizabeth Carnegie Research Conference was a truly special occasion celebrating the past, present and future of leadership in health disparities research
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