“As far back as I can remember, I was always interested in science, but nursing was never part of my vocabulary,” Fong said. “Growing up, I had a complete lack of understanding about the multifaceted world of nursing. It’s almost […]
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Previous installments of Academic Pursuits offered tips and advice on getting into grad school—such as how to write a personal statement or how to acquire letters of recommendation. This time, however, we thought we would take a different angle and
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So you’ve decided to go to graduate school. Great! Now all you have to do is figure out how you are going to pay for it. This can be a daunting task. The cost of graduate education has skyrocketed at
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“If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.” This is not just an old saying; it’s a truism. Nothing is more valuable than an individual’s health. If you are not healthy, it’s almost impossible to be happy, no
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Hospital employees are disproportionately female and Caucasian. Attracting a more diverse workforce is a hospital business imperative. –American Hospital Association Commission on Workforce for Hospitals and Health Systems, April 2002 America is suffering from an acute shortage of nurses–but by
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Current federal minority health initiatives, such as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, HHSÂ’ Healthy People 2010 program and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Racial and
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The Path We Tread In this updated and expanded third edition of the now-classic text The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1854-1994, by pioneering African-American nursing educator and leader Dr. M. Elizabeth Carnegie, the author’s intentions are to
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Q: I am a Muslim nurse who wears Hijab [the Islamic dress requirement that women’s bodies must be completely covered except for their face and hands]. I am frustrated because infection control staff are always asking me to wear short
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Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from a presentation given by the author at the Oncology Nursing Society’s Cancer Prevention and Early Detection (CPED) Program for HBCU/MSI Nurses: Dissemination Colloquium, May 30-31, 2003 in Miami. Funded through a grant from
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