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Healing a Wounded Past
Centuries of genocide, cultural destruction and prejudice have left Native Americans an ongoing legacy of serious health problems. Indian nurses can play a crucial role in helping patients begin the process of healing from historical trauma.
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Super Students!
Minority Nurse Congratulates it's 2003 Scholarship Winners
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Death and Dying Across Cultures
At this most difficult time in the lives of patients and their families, end-of-life care that is sensitive to diverse religious and cultural needs becomes supremely important
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Minding Her Own Business
Running a start-up company isn’t easy in today’s economy. But for nurse entrepreneur Rose Leidl, persistence has made the gamble pay off.
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An Army (and Navy and Air Force) of Opportunities
In both wartime and peacetime, nursing careers in the military offer exceptional opportunities to see the world, serve your country and advance to leadership positions
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Making History: Black Nightingales
For the first installment in our new series of articles celebrating the history of minority nurses, we begin at the very beginning with some of the earliest black nursing pioneers
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EXCEEDing the Standard
The federally funded EXCEED program is taking minority health disparities research to the next level--by turning information into intervention
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Teaching Nursing Students About Minority Health Disparities
When your students graduate and go out into the world, will they be ready, willing and able to join the fight against racial and ethnic health inequities? Here’s what some nursing educators are doing to make sure their students are prepared.
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Send Your Career to Camp
Are you looking for a summer job that feels more like a working vacation? Become a camp nurse and have the great outdoors for your workplace!
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Chicago Cancer Support Community Seeks Volunteers
Cancer support group seeks volunteers.
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He's Green, He's a Doctor and He's Helping Hispanics Lead Healthier Lives
What does a frog have to do with empowering residents of underserved Hispanic communities to learn about the dangers of high cholesterol and take control of their health?
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Setting the Record Straight About the First Historically Black BSN Program
Several readers have written in to provide us with more information in response to a news story published in the Summer 2003...
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First-Ever Guide to Care of Women with Disabilities Published
People with disabilities are a minority population that is often overlooked when it comes to leveling the health care playing field to ensure that all Americans receive the same quality of care.
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Employee Benefits Managers Clueless About Minority Health Disparities
The earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Many Americans of color do not receive the same quality of health care as whites.
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Do Spleen Cells Hold the Key to a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes?
The results of a breakthrough study conducted last year by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) suggest that spleen cells may have the ability to develop into insulin-producing pancreatic islet cells in adult animals with type 1 diabetes, replacing old islet cells that were destroyed by the disease.
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Black and Hispanic State Legislators Join Forces to Fight Health Disparities
Recognizing that (1) racial and ethnic disparities in health care are a national crisis that must be attacked at the state and local level and (2) there is strength in numbers, leaders of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators...
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Breast Cancer Disparities May Have a Biological Basis, Study Suggests
One of the most puzzling of all minority health disparities is that African-American women have a lower risk of developing breast cancer than white women yet are much more likely to die from the disease.
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NCEMNA Expands Its Activities, Launches Web Site and Scholarship Program
The year 2003 was a busy one for the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA).
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