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11 Ways to Provide Linguistically Competent Patient Education Looking for patient education information written in Spanish, Chinese, Farsi, Hmong or other languages spoken by the ethnic populations your health care facility serves? » Read full article
How Do You Solve the Minority Nursing Faculty Shortage? Put Them Online! » Read full article
Boston Nurse Wins National Award for Outstanding Filipino American Women » Read full article
A Model Approach to Culturally Competent AIDS Care » Read full article
Office of Minority Health Awards $12 Million in Katrina Relief Grants » Read full article
Worth 1,000 Words » Read full article
Asian Women Less Likely to Have Breast-Conserving Surgery » Read full article
Hispanic Physicians Launch Obesity Prevention Campaign » Read full article
Native American Health Research Programs Receive $6 Million in Grants » Read full article
Cultural Competence. . .from the Patient’s Perspective » Read full article
Taking Charge of Our Own Future: Philippine Nurses Association of America Convenes in Kansas City » Read full article
From Welder to Nurse Laid off after a plant closing, three middle-aged men reinvent themselves as nursing students--and discover a passion for patient care. » Read full article
Recruiting Men into Nursing School Nursing programs that have successfully increased the number of men in their student populations share their expert advice for attracting male students--and even more importantly, for keeping them. » Read full article
Answering Katrina’s Call For this U.S. Public Health Service nurse deployed to the Gulf Coast, the mission was clear--to provide care and hope wherever hurricane victims needed it most. » Read full article
A Nurse Responds to Hurricane Katrina Combining clinical skills with spiritual faith, a nurse who is also a minister helps bring hope to the hopeless by healing Katrina victims’ bodies and souls. » Read full article
Where the Heart Is The rapidly growing specialty of home health nursing urgently needs more minority nurses who can bring culturally sensitive care to ethnically diverse patients right where they live. » Read full article
Fighting Gangs the Healthy Way How Hispanic nurses in South Chicago are addressing gangs as a public health issue. » Read full article
A New Voice in Nursing Although it’s only three years old, the American Arab Nurses Association is already making an impact as a force for promoting cultural awareness in a post-9/11 world. » Read full article
Leaders Follow In the battle against racial and ethnic breast cancer disparities, being a leader means more than just taking initiative. It also means honoring the successes of others who have contributed to the fight. » Read full article

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SCHOLARSHIP: National American Arab Nurses Association OFFERED BY: NAANA Scholarships DESCRIPTION:

Offers various scholarships for current nursing students, practicing nurses, and students interested in pursuing a career in nursing.
Phone: (313) 982-4070
Web site: https://n-aana.org/scholarship/index.asp
Deadline: July 1, but may vary from year to year
Amount: Unspecified

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SCHOOL: Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing DEGREES: Graduate DESCRIPTION:

The Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing prepares professionals to meet the needs of 21st century urban populations. Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing is the largest public-sector nursing institution in New York, a unit of Hunter College, the largest senior college in the City University of New York. School of Nursing faculty are leaders in their fields who bring evidence-based clinical experience, research and teaching directly into the classroom while engaging students in solving real-world problems.

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