Feature Articles From 2006

Fighting Gangs the Healthy Way

How Hispanic nurses in South Chicago are addressing gangs as a public health issue.

Dinah Ramirez, RNMN 2006 Winter
Where the Heart Is

The rapidly growing specialty of home health nursing urgently needs more minority nurses who can bring culturally sensitive care to ethnically diverse patients right where they live.

Ran Li, MSN, RNMN 2006 Winter
A Nurse Responds to Hurricane Katrina

Combining clinical skills with spiritual faith, a nurse who is also a minister helps bring hope to the hopeless by healing Katrina victims’ bodies and souls.

One of the evacuee families the author assisted as part of his relief work in Mississippi and Luisianna. The family pictured lost their home and everything they owned.MN 2006 Winter
Answering Katrina’s Call

For this U.S. Public Health Service nurse deployed to the Gulf Coast, the mission was clear--to provide care and hope wherever hurricane victims needed it most.

Relief workers assist the effort.MN 2006 Winter
Recruiting Men into Nursing School

Nursing programs that have successfully increased the number of men in their student populations share their expert advice for attracting male students--and even more importantly, for keeping them.

Greg Webb, a student at The University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, observes instructor Donna Abriola, MSN, RN, demonstrating procedures on the school's new SimBaby patient simulator.MN 2006 Winter
Kudos for the Black Male Nurse

A day in the life of a black man who has chosen nursing as his life’s work illustrates the unique contributions these dedicated caregivers make to the profession.

MN 2006 Summer
Teaching Neonatal Resuscitation in Afghanistan

An African American military nurse finds that teaching a class to local nurse-midwives in Kandahar is a life-changing experience for both the students and herself.

MN 2006 Summer
Overcoming the Odds

Three RNs with disabilities share their barrier-breaking stories and their advice for other nurses and students who hope to emulate their success.

MN 2006 Summer
Discrimination in Nursing School: Thing of the Past or Alive and Well?

While it’s generally agreed that discrimination against minority students is less of a problem today than it used to be, some experts believe it is being replaced by new, more subtle forms of bias

MN 2006 Summer
Closing the Health Insurance Gap

What nurses can do to help uninsured and underinsured minority patients get the care and coverage they need

Closing the Health Insurance GapMN 2006 Summer
From CNA to CEO

A successful nurse executive shares the story of her journey to the highest rung of the nursing career ladder--with plenty of advice for future minority nursing leaders along the way

MN 2006 Summer
From Welder to Nurse

Laid off after a plant closing, three middle-aged men reinvent themselves as nursing students--and discover a passion for patient care.

Nursing students (L-R) James Mark, Sidney Henry and Walter Mark practice their skills on a classmate posing as a patient.MN 2006 Winter
Careers in Pediatric Oncology Nursing

One of the most inspiring and rewarding specialties in nursing has an acute need for more minority nurses who can provide culturally sensitive care to kids with cancer and their families

Careers in Pediatric Oncology NursingMN 2006 Summer
Culture & Clinical CareMN 2006 Summer
Book Reviews 2006

Recent book review by senior editor Pam Chwedyk

MN 2006 Summer
Are NCLEX® Testing Policies Culturally Insensitive?

A Muslim nurse’s experience of bias while taking the boards underscores the need for test center regulations that acknowledge and respect candidates’ cultural differences

MN 2006 Summer
Health Disparities Research, Caribbean Style

With the support of a landmark federal grant, nurses at the University of the Virgin Islands are gearing up to confront this U.S. territory’s unique health disparities challenges

MN 2006 Summer

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