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Closing the Infant Mortality Gap
How nurses can play a leadership role in helping to eliminate one of the most tragic of racial and ethnic health disparities.
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Hindu Dietary Practices: Feeding the Body, Mind and Soul
Our series on culturally competent dietary assessments continues with a look at the world’s third largest religion’s beliefs about food and health.
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BiDil Controversy Continues as FDA Approves First “Race-Specific” Drug
Is American health care ready for the first-ever drug targeted specifically to African Americans?
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NSNA Celebrates 40th Anniversary of “Breakthrough to Nursing” Project
It was the era of the Civil Rights Movement, a time when history was being made across America. In 1954, the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision mandated the racial integration of the nation's public schools. In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King led the March on Washington. And on May 2, 1965, the National Student Nurses' Association (NSNA) made civil rights history in the nursing profession by launching the Breakthrough to Nursing Project (BTN).
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Baccalaureate Nursing in Rural Oklahoma: Strategies for Success
In a unique collaborative project, two universities in Indian Country join forces to make quality BSN education more accessible to culturally diverse students.
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Worth 1,000 Words
African Americans have the highest breast cancer mortality rates of any racial or ethnic group.
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Why Don’t More Hispanics Participate in Clinical Trials?
According to the Center for Information & Study on Clinical Research Participation, Hispanics account for 13% of the U.S. population but only 1% of participants in clinical trials for new treatments for serious conditions like diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.
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Essential Reading: Annual Review of Nursing Research Examines Health Disparities
Does it seem to you that most academic nursing books and journals still don't pay enough attention to the urgent crisis of racial and ethnic minority health disparities in America and to the role minority nurses can play in helping to eliminate them?
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Help Pilot-Test a Culturally Competent Breast Biopsy Education Program
Why is it that African American and Hispanic women have lower incidence rates of breast cancer than white women but higher mortality rates?
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It’s a Family Affair
Meet a husband and wife team who believe in doing everything together--including earning nursing degrees.
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Careers in Nephrology Nursing
The growing epidemic of kidney disease in minority communities is creating an urgent need for culturally competent nurses of color with training and skills in this specialty.
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Management Team
The rapidly expanding field of disease management abounds with opportunities for culturally diverse nurses who can educate and empower patients with chronic illnesses to take charge of their own health.
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Administration on Aging Awards Grants to Tribal Elders
The federal Administration on Aging (AoA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently awarded some $30 million in grants to support community programs and services designed to help American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribal elders lead healthier lives.
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University of the Philippines Nursing Faculty Fund Needs You!
Attention, Filipino nurses: If you are an alumnus of the University of the Philippines-Manila College of Nursing (UPCN), or if you simply want to show your support for this venerable educational institution, UPCN's newly established Faculty Endowment Fund hopes to hear from you.
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Diabetes Disparities On the Rise in Hawaii
The most recent Hawaii Diabetes Report, released earlier this year by the Hawaii State Department of Health's Diabetes Prevention and Control Program, reveals that this serious disease is a major public health problem in the Aloha State-and it is hitting people of Native Hawaiian, Filipino and Japanese ancestry particularly hard.
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Keeping Secrets Close to the Breast
Many Americans of color are reluctant to reveal information about their family health histories, even to their closest loved ones. Minority nurses can play an important role in helping to break the cycle of secrecy.
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