Feature Articles From 2005
| Voice of the People | A unique nurse-led patient advocacy program in Montana is helping to make sure that American Indian patients and their families receive culturally sensitive care | MN 2005 Summer | |
| Providing Culturally Competent Mental Health Care to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders | Cultural stigma, language barriers and ethnic stereotypes all contribute to underutilization of mental health services by America’s fastest-growing minority population. Nurses can play an important role in helping API patients access the culturally sensitive care they need. | MN 2005 Summer | |
| Nursing with the Hand You Are Given | The Americans with Disabilities Act was supposed to provide equal access to education for people with disabilities. So why do so many nursing students with disabilities still face discrimination in the admissions process? | MN 2005 Summer | |
| Making Rounds | MN 2005 Summer | ||
| State of the Union | Formed seven years ago to provide a powerful, unified voice for all minority nurses, the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA) continues to focus on the future | MN 2005 Summer | |
| 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. | MN 2005 Winter | |
| Role Model | Actress Hattie Winston talks about playing a minority nurse on television and her real-life passion for making a difference in young people’s lives. | MN 2005 Winter | |
| Nurse, Teacher, Trailblazer | As the first African-American man to earn a PhD in nursing, Randolph Rasch broke down many barriers to achieve a successful career as a nursing educator. Now he’s helping other nurses follow in his footsteps. |  | MN 2005 Winter |
| 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 |  | MN 2005 Winter |
| The Wide World of Sports/Fitness Nursing | From working in hospital fitness centers and sports injury clinics to teaching fitness classes in the inner city, this emerging career specialty offers nurses many opportunities to be MVPs. |  | MN 2005 Winter |
| Internship Japanese Style | An international nursing student gets a rare chance to do her senior-year clinical observation with a famous doctor from her homeland--and learns lessons for a lifetime. |  | MN 2005 Winter |
| From Minority Nurse to Nurse Practitioner | Because nurse practitioners are able to provide primary care and prescribe treatments, this advanced practice career can empower minority nurses to make an even bigger difference in eliminating health disparities | MN 2005 Summer | |
| Divine Inspiration | Many minority nurses are concerned about making health care education more accessible to low-income students. But how many nurses actually start their own college? Linda Smith did--with a little help from above. | MN 2005 Summer | |
| Public Works | Careers in public health nursing offer minority nurses a unique opportunity to make a difference in a really big way--by improving the health of entire communities | MN 2005 Summer |
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