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College peer educators fighting the infant mortality battle
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Going Bananas Over Potassium
Among the many electrolytes, potassium stands out; one nurse educator offers some tips for advocating potassium in practice
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Advocating Change and Developing Policies in Practice
Nurses can make a huge difference in health care practice by participating in policymaking.
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America's Growing Waistline: The Challenge of Obesity
Obesity rates seem to have plateaued—how can nurses jumpstart the downward trend, particularly among minority communities?
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PSA: Nursing and self-care
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Man Enough: The 20 X 20 Choose Nursing Campaign
The American Assembly for Men in Nursing profiles the progress of its campaign for a 20% increase in the number of male nurses in the workforce by 2020. Through image marketing, research, and advocacy, male nurses are increasing their presence at the bedside as well as in today's culture.
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Danger on the Job: Nurses Speak Out Against Hospital Violence
Nurses are implementing measures to protect themselves at work. With a patient's most stressful days being a nurse's everyday, pressure is bound to build up. Hospitals and health care institutions around the country are increasing their security for everyone's safety.
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Obesity: The Weight of the Matter
The Fort Bend County Black Nurses Association celebrates the 10th anniversary of their fight against today’s most serious public health problem, obesity.
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Family Support in the Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes Among Hispanics
Diabetes is one of the most persistent health disparities affecting Hispanic communities. Fortunately, Hispanic patients rarely face the disease alone, bolstered by their culture of strong family support.
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Turning the Tide: Teen Pregnancy in Minority Communities
With the number of teenage pregnancies on the rise again, particularly in minority communities, nurses are dedicating themselves to mentoring and teaching young mothers to reverse the trend.
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Frances Stout, R.N.: Community Health Leader of the Tohono O'odham Nation
When facing retirement after 30 years in nursing, Frances Stout decided to plunge back into work and lead a revolution in her community's health care system.
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A Proactive Program
Teen pregnancy, once a declining problem, is once again on the rise, particularly in minority communities. To combat the trend, one Massachusetts nurse started a program aimed at educating students and parents about teen pregnancy before it occurs.
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Networking Nurses
Facebook, Twitter, blogs, online forums, podcasts, smartphones, wikis...social networking is all around us, impacting our lives and careers in new ways daily. Telenursing is gaining momentum, and it will continue to do so as health care enters the digital age
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Reading, Writing and Fighting Health Disparities
How school nurses can make a difference in pediatric minority health
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Preventing HIV/AIDS in Older African American Women
HIV infections are rising at an alarming rate among postmenopausal black women, and clinicians who provide health services need to be educated on their risk behaviors.
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Minority Women and Intimate Partner Violence
Nurses can play an important role in developing culturally sensitive interventions to help victims of physical, sexual and emotional abuse
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Preventing Premature Birth Disparities
How nurses can address the growing crisis of high preterm birth rates in minority women and help give infants of all colors an equal chance for a healthy start in life
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Filipino Nurse Honored by Schering/KEY for Asthma and Allergy Awareness
Under the leadership of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) and Schering/KEY, NASN’s primary corporate partner, the efforts of school nurses to teach students and parents about asthma and allergies are being recognized and rewarded.
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Organizations Unite to Increase Seat Belt Use Among African Americans
In a keynote address delivered to a recent meeting of the Blue Ribbon Panel to Increase Seat Belt Use Among African Americans, U.S. Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.) informed the panel that the seat belt campaign was vitally important, not only as a safety issue but also as a health initiative nationwide.
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Shock Treatment
Scaring inner city teens into making better life choices may seem like an unorthodox tactic. But as “Shock Mentor” Allen Wolfe has proven, this hard-hitting approach really works.
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