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Community Outreach
Many community college nursing programs have high dropout rates, and retaining students of color can be particularly challenging. Here’s what some schools are doing to help increase their minority students’ chances for success.
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Yes You Can (Succeed in Nurse Anesthesia School)
No one ever said that earning a master's degree in nurse anesthesia is easy, but it doesn't have to be the impossible dream. Five minority anesthesia graduates who have "been there" share their personal strategies for successfully navigating a nurse anesthesia program—and completing it.
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Worth 1,000 Words
Omana Simon, MSN, FNP, RN, president of the National Association of Indian Nurses of America (NAINA), and Lydia Albuquerque, RN, president of the NAINA-affiliated American Association of Indian Nurses of New Jersey, Chapter 2 (AAIN-NJ2), present an award to Nancy Holecek, RN, senior vice president of Saint Barnabas Health Care System, in recognition of the New Jersey-based company's recruitment and support of immigrant nurses from India.
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Mentoring African American Nursing Students: A Holistic Approach
Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community of nurturing, empowering nurse mentors to recruit and retain black students in baccalaureate nursing programs.
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Nursing Boards Endorse “Americans For Nursing Shortage Relief” Initiative
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Board of Directors endorsed the document “Americans for Nursing Shortage Relief” (ANSR) at a meeting this past fall.
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Nursing Education Bills Need Your Support
Now that Congress has finally appropriated funding to implement the landmark Nurse Reinvestment Act of 2002--signed into law last August in response to the national nursing shortage but not funded until February 2003--an exciting array of new programs are in the works to encourage the next generation of nurses to begin or continue their professional education.
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Minority Nurse Population: Going Up!
Although the number of licensed registered nurses in the United States increased by more than 5% between 1996 and 2000, this growth rate was much smaller than in previous years, holding little hope of any quick fix for the nation’s worsening nursing shortage.
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Mentors to the Max
When it comes to recruiting, developing and retaining American Indian nursing students, mentor programs can make all the difference in the world.
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Be Prepared
Recruiting minority nursing faculty is a two-way street: Both schools and potential candidates must be fully up to the challenge.
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Navigating the Faculty Track
For junior minority nursing faculty, advancing your career in academia can be fraught with challenges--from racial and gender prejudice to the pressures of earning tenure. Here’s some expert advice--from educators who have been there--to guide you down the path to success.
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Reach Out, We’ll Be There
From financial aid and mentors to more accessible classrooms, nursing schools are using creative strategies to attract—and keep—minority students
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Ever Upward
An innovative online college offers as unusual solution to the nursing shortage: helping minority medical technicians, LPNs and others move up to RN careers.
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Coloring Books Inspire Future Minority Nurses
The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that jobs for RNs will experience faster-than-average growth through 2006, with job opportunities increasing by 21% in nursing, compared to 14% for all other occupations.
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Minority Nurses in California Face Barriers to Advancement
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Another Perspective on Men in Nursing
In the Spring 2002 issue of Minority Nurse, our cover story on strategies for recruiting men into nursing examined, among other things, some of the stereotypes, prejudices and outright discrimination that continue to be significant challenges for men who choose to pursue this traditionally female career.
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Strategic Plan for Nursing’s Future Includes Diversity on its Agenda
With America’s severe nursing shortage predicted to reach emergency levels by 2010, a national coalition of nursing leaders has united to launch a sweeping strategic action plan for ensuring the profession’s future health.
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Northern Exposure
Although many researchers still group them together with American Indians, Alaska Natives are finally emerging as a population with its own identity and unique health care needs.
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An Untapped Potential
As America’s population continues to diversify and the RN work force continues to age, innovative programs are reaching out to the next generation of minority nurses
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Diversity Leadership Initiative Aims to Develop More Minority Health Care Executives
Even though this issue of MN profiles several minority nurses who have broken through the glass ceiling to attain executive-level positions, the unfortunate reality is that persons of color are still severely underrepresented in the field of health care management.
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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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