Our Latest Issue - Fall 2009
Upcoming Publication Date: October 1, 2009
| Community Outreach | Many community college nursing programs have high dropout rates, and retaining students of color can be particularly challenging. Here’s what some schools are doing to help increase their minority students’ chances for success. |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| A Win-Win Partnership, VA Style | The Department of Veterans Affairs, one of the nation’s largest employers of minority nurses, is teaming up with nursing schools for a unique educational collaboration: the VA Nursing Academy |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| A Guide on the Journey to Womanhood | Nurse practitioner Mary Arnold’s innovative "Girltalk" workshops help young girls and their families prepare for the challenges of puberty |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| An Open Letter to Historically Black Nursing Schools | Why now is the time to consider starting a nurse anesthesia program |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| Yes You Can (Succeed in Nurse Anesthesia School) | No one ever said that earning a master's degree in nurse anesthesia is easy, but it doesn't have to be the impossible dream. Five minority anesthesia graduates who have "been there" share their personal strategies for successfully navigating a nurse anesthesia program—and completing it. |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| “Culture and Autism”—A Reader Responds | In response to the Spring 2009 Second Opinion column written by Estela Dimes, BSN, RN, we received this letter from Zenora Thompson, MSN, RN, an instructor in the nursing program at Kent State University's Ashtabula Campus in Ashtabula, Ohio, and the mother of a 22-year-old with autism |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| New Co-Pay Assistance Program Helps Fight Blood Cancer Disparities | Because blood cancer medicines are expensive, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has launched a new program to help myeloma patients who are having trouble affording their prescriptions |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| Some Additional Information about Clinical Nurse Leaders | Following publication of the Summer 2009 feature article "Something Old, Something New," Anjanetta Davis, MSN, RN, wrote to us to provide some helpful additional information about the unique role CNLs play in the overall patient care picture |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| Worth 1,000 Words | Omana Simon, MSN, FNP, RN, president of the National Association of Indian Nurses of America (NAINA), and Lydia Albuquerque, RN, president of the NAINA-affiliated American Association of Indian Nurses of New Jersey, Chapter 2 (AAIN-NJ2), present an award to Nancy Holecek, RN, senior vice president of Saint Barnabas Health Care System, in recognition of the New Jersey-based company's recruitment and support of immigrant nurses from India. |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| What Is President Obama Doing to Improve Indian Health Care? (And Is It Enough?) | As of September 2009, three-quarters of the way through President Obama's first year in office, how many of his promises to First Americans are actually being kept? |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| Comic Strip Helps Raise Diabetes Awareness in the Hispanic Community | To help spread the word about this serious health threat, Baldo co-creators Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos partnered with the National Alliance for Hispanic Health |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| Paperwork | Reviews of Transforming Nursing Education: The Culturally Inclusive Environment; Susan Dandridge Bosher, PhD, MA, and Margaret Dexheimer Pharris, PhD, RN, MPH, FAAN (Editors) and Real Nurses and Others: Racism in Nursing by Tania Das Gupta, PhD |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| Editor's Notebook | Are We Scapegoating Foreign-Educated Nurses? |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| Directing Our Destiny | The Philippine Nurses Association of America marks its 30th year of advocacy and activism on behalf of Filipino nurses in the U.S. and around the world |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| Nurses, Culture and Cancer | Through culturally competent outreach, education, research and patient care, nurses can make a dramatic difference in reducing minority cancer disparities |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| Anniversary Achievers | What better way to celebrate 10 years of the Minority Nurse Magazine Scholarship Program than to congratulate our 10th Annual Scholarship winners! |  | MN 2009 Fall |
| Preventing Premature Birth Disparities | How nurses can address the growing crisis of high preterm birth rates in minority women and help give infants of all colors an equal chance for a healthy start in life |  | MN 2009 Fall |
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