From RN to CRNA
For Gloria Spires, CRNA, BS, one of the most rewarding aspects of her work as a nurse anesthetist is when a patient wakes up after surgery and says with surprise, “Is it done?” To the patient, it seems like it […]
Have a Nice Hot Cup of Diabetes Prevention
Coffee, tea or milk? According to scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), tea is definitely the best choice for the 17 million Americans currently affected with diabetes, a disease so prevalent in minority populations that it is one
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New Evidence Confirms the Value of Routine Osteoporosis Screening
Is routine bone density testing for women age 65 and older really an effective tool for preventing osteoporosis, the bone-weakening disease that is especially common in women of Asian descent? Until recently, most bone health experts believed there was not
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Getting to the Heart of Culturally Competent Care
There are currently some 500 American Indian tribes in the U.S., each with its own unique cultural beliefs, customs and traditions. Health care providers who have first-hand experience or knowledge of a tribe’s beliefs about health and illness, as well
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UIC Nursing School Brings AIDS Education to Malawi
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to launch an unusual AIDS prevention community outreach project—unusual because the communities are located in Malawi, one
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Helping Sistahs Learn to Live With Fibroids
African-American women are three to nine times more likely to suffer from uterine fibroid tumors than Caucasian women. While fibroids are usually not a life-threatening condition, they can seriously impair the quality of women’s lives by causing severe pelvic pain,
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Wanted: Funding for Culturally Competent Breast Cancer Education Resource
Meet Ruby and Pearl, two lovable, grandmotherly African-American ladies who have recently learned that a combination of monthly breast self-exams, regular mammograms and an annual clinical exam can reduce their risk of suffering from breast cancer. Now they’re on a
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The Face of Nursing Faculty 2001-2002: Still White and Female
Despite the efforts of many of the nation’s nursing schools to recruit more minorities and men into their faculty ranks over the past year, a new report from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) paints a disappointing picture
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PNAA Study Paints Portrait of Today’s Filipino Nurses
During the serious nursing shortage of the 1960s and 70s, hundreds of nurses from the Philippines were brought to America to fill RN staffing gaps. Many of these immigrant nurses chose to stay permanently in the U.S. and went on
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Is the Bush Administration Ignoring Gay/Lesbian Health Issues?
So far, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health–launched in 1998 as part of former President Bill Clinton’s Initiative on Race–seems to have survived the transition to a new
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