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Giving Voice to the “Invisible Minority”
Although often hidden within the broader category of “Asian nurses,” Filipino nurses bring their own unique culture and abilities to America’s health care profession
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Saving Lives on the Front Lines
The diversity-intensive field of emergency nursing offers minority nurses a rewarding opportunity to make a life-or-death difference in patient care
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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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A Reader Speaks Out: “Why Don’t Minority Communities Encourage Graduate Education?”
We recently received this thought-provoking letter from Marie L. Lobo, RN, PhD, FAAN, a professor at the University of New Mexico College of Nursing in Albuquerque.
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On the Fast Track
Looking to jump-start your advanced education? A “fast-track” nursing degree program may be just the answer!
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Newly Elected NSNA Board of Directors Makes History as Most Diverse Ever
Throughout its more than 50-year history, the National Student Nurses' Association (NSNA) has been a pioneer in embracing racial, cultural and gender diversity in the nursing profession.
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Those Who Can, Teach
Minority nurses who have chosen to work in academia talk about why they love their rewarding careers
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Handle with Care
Although Asian women are at particularly high risk, all minority nurses should take precautions against osteoporosis
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Student Power
Student nurses in the nation’s capital have launched an innovative campaign to recruit more men and people of color into nursing--with a little help from their local ANA chapter.
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Mentorship in Black and White
Through a summer research experience with a Caucasian mentor, a minority nursing student learns to challenge racial stereotypes--both in others and in herself.
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Our Voice at the CDC
Thanks to the historic appointment of American Indian nurse Pelagie “Mike” Snesrud to a key federal health policy-making position, tribal nations have a champion within the system to advocate for their needs.
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Bringing Equal Health Outcomes within REACH
From Cambodian communities in New England to Indian tribes in Oklahoma, the REACH 2010 program is helping nurses make a major difference in improving the health of underserved populations.
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Neonatal Need
It’s one of the specialty areas that has been hardest hit by the RN staff shortage. But that’s not the only reason why the field of neonatal nursing urgently needs more minority nurses.
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Management Plan
Meet five minority nurses in health care management positions whose ability to defy the odds, break through the barriers and take courageous risks helped them rise to the top of their field.
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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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Follow Your Dreams
Think you could never become a nurse because there are too many obstacles in your way? Read the inspiring story of a nurse who beat the odds by refusing to give up on herself.
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What Color is Your Whistle?
Reporting incidents of wrongdoing in your workplace is always a risky business-but for minority nurses who blow the whistle, the stakes are even higher
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A Team Effort
The unwillingness of nursing to consistently embrace men as equal colleagues is not a good thing at a time of global shortage. It’s not good for our society because it limits the career choices of potential bright and compassionate caregivers, and worst of all, it erodes the integrity and ethics that are the hallmarks of our profession.
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Looking for a Few Good Men
Actually, the nursing profession will need to recruit a lot of good men if it hopes to reduce the nation’s serious RN shortage. Here’s how some nursing organizations are rising to the challenge.
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Career Magnetism
Magnet hospitals are more than just great places for nurses to work—they’re also employers with an exceptional commitment to helping minority nurses advance their careers.
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