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Men in Nursing School
Six gender minority nursing students and one recent graduate share their strategies for success in a female-dominated academic environment
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Healing Troubled Minds
Are you looking for an opportunity to help change the lives of some of the most vulnerable patients in the entire health care system? Consider psychiatric-mental health nursing—a specialty with an urgent need for more minority nurses.
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A Win-Win Partnership, VA Style
The Department of Veterans Affairs, one of the nation’s largest employers of minority nurses, is teaming up with nursing schools for a unique educational collaboration: the VA Nursing Academy
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Nursing Ambassador to the World
From her native North Carolina to Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and more, nursing pioneer Mary Mills blazed a truly international trail as a public health leader
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Hail Nursing Heroes!
Welcome to Minority Nurse’s 2009 National Nurses Week Celebration.
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A Magnet Moment: The Pursuit of Excellence in VA Nursing
How one Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital developed a successful model program to help it meet one of the key criteria for earning the prestigious Magnet hospital designation.
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Kids Come in All Colors
With the population of Americans under the age of 18 becoming more and more culturally diverse, minority pediatric nurses and nurse practitioners are in increasingly high demand.
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Open to Interpretation
From telephone language lines to video interpreting systems, a variety of options are available to help health care facilities eliminate language barriers and provide better care to patients with limited English proficiency
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Opportunities in Forensic Nursing
Even though it’s still hard to find a full-time career in this emerging specialty, the outlook for future jobs is promising and the need for more minority forensic nurses is growing
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MBA Program Created Exclusively for Health Care Professionals
Nurses of color are still drastically underrepresented in health care management positions.
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Dr. Nurse
As nursing schools nationwide focus their energies on increasing minority enrollment in doctoral programs, there’s never been a better time to advance your career by earning a PhD.
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Closing the Cancer Gap
By choosing careers in oncology nursing, nurses of color can not only help fill an urgent staffing need but also play a key role in addressing one of the nation’s most serious minority health disparities.
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In Our Own Backyard
Why should skilled nurses from Mexico and other countries have to work menial jobs in the U.S. because they lack licenses to practice here? Members of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses aren’t just asking that question—they’re doing something about it.
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How to Sell Kids on Nursing: Think Like a Kid!
A diverse group of teenagers smiles knowingly, because they've just found out that "nurses earn more than accountants and have more job choices than Web engineers."
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A Military Victory
As one Hispanic nurse’s personal success story shows, serving in the military can help minority nurses overcome socioeconomic barriers, advance their education and develop into leaders.
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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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21st Century Midwives
As the nurse-midwifery profession continues to grow, so does the need for more minority nurses to join their ranks
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Legal Eagles
Put nursing, law and business together and what do you get? The exciting field of legal nurse consulting!
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Welcome Aboard
Preceptorship programs can help minority nurses successfully adjust to employment transitions as they advance their careers
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School Days
Although budget cutbacks are restricting hiring in some states, America’s school districts are facing an unprecedented need for school nurses who can provide care to students with a diverse range of cultural and medical needs.
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