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From RN to CRNA
A severe shortage of nurse anesthetists plus a growing need for culturally and linguistically competent anesthesia care make this advanced practice specialty an ideal career for minority nurses.
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Preparing for the Future
From summer institutes and nursing school courses to workshops and online resources, many options are available to help minority nurses learn about the health care implications of the new genetics and genomics
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Pay Up! D:ACH's First Annual Salary Report
Who makes more: MRI techs or respiratory therapists? Thought about becoming a cardio-pulmonary perfusionist? You might after checking Diversity: Allied Health Career's First Annual Salary Report!
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“New” Isn’t Always Better When Treating Hypertension
Because cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the six key action areas of the federal initiative to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health by 2010...
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Testing Kids’--and Nurses’--Asthma Knowledge
Are you thoroughly up to date on the newest guidelines and treatments for controlling asthma...
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“Too Much Talk and Not Enough Action”--A Reader Responds
In the Winter 2003 issue of Minority Nurse, our Editor's Notebook editorial, "Too Much Talk and Not Enough Action," expressed the opinion that it's time for the nation's health professionals to..
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Where There’s Smoke
Individually and collectively, nurses can play a unique leadership role in reducing tobacco use in minority communities. Here’s how you can get involved.
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Tools for Closing the Immunizations Gap
Immunization against infectious diseases such as measles, mumps, hepatitis, pneumonia and influenza is one of the 10 Leading Health Indicators in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2010 national prevention agenda--and also one of the six focus areas of HHS’ Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health.
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Cross-Cultural Guides for Treating Muslim Patients
Like other minority populations in the U.S., Muslims of Arabic descent have their own unique cultural and religious beliefs about health, illness, birth and death that can create barriers to effective treatment if they are not understood or respected by health care providers.
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Promoting Breast Health in Three Asian Languages
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), breast cancer rates are on the rise for women of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) descent living in the United States, yet this high-risk population gets mammograms less often than...
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Sickle-Cell Pain Management Guidelines at a Glance
For Americans who suffer from sickle-cell disease, which occurs primarily in African Americans and Hispanics of Caribbean ancestry, this incurable, inherited blood disorder is synonymous with extreme pain...
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Careers in the Indian Health Service
Whether you’re a Native American nurse who wants to improve the health of your people or any minority nurse who wants to make a difference helping underserved communities, the IHS
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An Exceptional Nursing Student Makes a Vow…and Makes History
When Janelle Sagmiller was growing up on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, she was troubled by the fact that so many of her friends were becoming pregnant as early as the sixth grade and dropping out of school. She vowed that when she was older, she would do something about this problem.
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The Power of Partnerships
Two nursing schools’ collaborative project to cultivate the next generation of minority nurse scientists has become a highly praised national model for researching solutions to health disparities
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Parental Guidance Suggested
The "Access and Success" program gives nursing students who are parents the support and encouragement they need to stay in college.
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Consumer-Targeted Prescription Drug Ads Help Close Minority Health Gaps
You've seen them on TV, heard them on the radio, encountered them while reading the Sunday paper or your favorite magazine...
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New Research Center Focuses on Health Disparities Solutions
At a time when the health care professions are being challenged to put more emphasis on fighting racial and ethnic disparities in health rather than simply gathering data about them, two Baltimore-based academic institutions-Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health and historically black Morgan State University-have joined forces to establish the appropriately named Center for Health Disparities Solutions.
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Eating Our Young
Are racism and cultural insensitivity contributing to the nursing shortage?
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