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Flying with the Eagles
Are minority nurse leaders born or made? At a unique leadership development program in New Jersey, the answer is “both.”
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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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Landmark Study Finds Flu Shots Safe for Asthma Patients
If you were a person with asthma at the start of the annual flu season, which of these two options would you prefer: (A) Get a flu shot and risk dangerous side effects that could worsen your asthma attacks, or (B) Forego the shot and risk a dangerous case of the flu, a disease that can be particularly deadly for asthma patients?
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Study Sheds New Light on Filipino Americans’ Health Needs
Even though Filipino Americans are one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the U.S., relatively little research has been conducted on this minority group’s health status, risk behaviors and health promotion practices. This lack of comprehensive and consistent data makes it extremely difficult for medical and nursing professionals to understand Filipino Americans’ health care needs and develop culturally appropriate disease prevention strategies.
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Muscular Dystrophy Research and Prevention Targets Hispanics
A rare form of muscular dystrophy previously thought to affect mostly French Canadians and an ethnic group in Israel known as Bukhara Jews has been discovered in a group of Hispanic families in New Mexico, reports the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
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Successful Breast Cancer Outreach Program Expands to Hmong, Laotian Community
Which is the more effective setting for educating women in minority communities about breast cancer prevention: the sterile, frightening environment of a doctor’s office or clinic, or the comfortable, familiar surroundings of the neighborhood shops and beauty parlors that are a normal part of their everyday lives?
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America’s Cities Promote AIDS Prevention in Minority Communities
In 1998, then-President Clinton challenged the nation to do something about the severe health crisis of HIV/AIDS in racial and ethnic minority communities—and America’s cities and their mayors have risen to that challenge.
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Johnson & Johnson Launches Diversity-Based Campaign to End the Nursing Shortage
In February, millions of TV viewers who tuned in to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City got the chance to vicariously experience such thrilling activities as ski jumping, snowboarding, speed skating and nursing.
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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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A New “Connection” for Breast Cancer Information
A study released in January by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contains good news and bad news about breast cancer survival rates.
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Preventing Botulism in Alaskan Native Communities
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Alaska has more cases of botulism than any other state in America, and the number of cases is increasing each year. In Alaskan Native communities, the most common cause of this extremely serious—and often deadly—form of food poisoning is eating traditional Native fermented foods, such as “stinky heads” (fermented fish heads), beaver tail and seal flipper.
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What’s New in Diabetes Management
Diabetes is one of the six critical health problems targeted in the federal government’s Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health. If you’re a nurse who is actively engaged in the battle to “close the diabetes gap,” here’s a roundup of some new diabetes management resources you may want to add to your arsenal.
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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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Gray Matters
As the nation’s elderly population soars, career opportunities for minority gerontology nurses will be everywhere—from the bedside to the classroom to the research lab
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Peer Power
Not content with just helping local students succeed, San José’s Filipino Nursing Students Association sets its sights on creating a nationwide support network
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AACN Offers Advice on Increasing Diversity at Nursing Schools
According to the newest U.S. Census figures, 49% of America’s population is male and nearly 33% are racial or ethnic minorities. But you’d never know it by looking at the nation’s nursing schools.
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HRSA Nursing Loan Repayment Program Gets an Infusion of Funding
With only so much financial aid and scholarship money to go around, many financially needy minority students have no choice but to take out loans to help them complete their nursing education, saddling them with a burden of debt that may take years to repay.
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Nursing School Enrollments Finally Start to Rise—But Not Enough
After six straight years of declines, enrollments in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs actually increased in 2001—by nearly 4%. But don’t start celebrating just yet.
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Mentoring to Empower
An unusual mentoring program in California helps minority students master the “three Cs” of academic success—communication, comfort level and confidence
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Forgotten Heroes
Why is the nursing profession so reluctant to offer support when nurses are injured on the job?
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