 NSNA Board of Directors 2003-2004 (left to right): Cheri Adair, director; Melisa Wilson, director; Andy Byerly, director; Nakisha Grey, Breakthrough to Nursing director; Michael Brakel, secretary/treasurer; Allison R. Webel, vice president; Matthew Arant, president; Jennifer Kibler, ex-officio and chair, […]
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Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles examining leadership development initiatives at minority nursing associations. Although she seems to juggle her dual roles with expert finesse, Susan Castor, MSN, RN, CCRN, president of the New Jersey
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Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from an essay submitted with an application to the 2005 ExceptionalNurse.com Scholarship Awards. Because of the sensitive nature of the topic, the author has requested that only his initials be used. I know I
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Racial and ethnic minorities are underrepresented as nurse researchers. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds the STAR (Stipends for Training Aspiring Researchers) Program to enhance recruitment of minority students into research careers. In the summer of 2002, after completing
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Natural disasters are colorblind in terms of whom and how they strike. When a disaster hits, it doesn’t hit by race, color or creed. It hits people who are humans and bleed, says Marilyn Pattillo, PhD, GNP, CNS, deputy team
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Mary Eliza Mahoney. Her very name is synonymous with the advancement of minorities in nursing. As America’s first professionally trained black nurse, Mahoney (1845-1926) has been an inspiration for generations of nurses. So it’s no surprise that the profession’s most
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It doesn’t take a PhD to figure out why the nation’s nursing schools urgently need to develop more faculty members in general and more minority faculty in particular—you just have to do some simple math. First of all, according to
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An urgent shortage of nursing faculty isn’t just something to worry about in the future. It’s here now. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), U.S. nursing schools turned away more than 32,000 qualified students in 2004.
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In recent years, nursing schools throughout the country have gone to great lengths to recruit more students from populations that have been traditionally underrepresented in the profession: racial and ethnic minorities, men, people with disabilities and older, nontraditional students. But
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