Effective communication between patients and health care providers is essential to the delivery of quality medical care. A patient’s inability to understand and speak the English language not only compromises the health and safety of the patient but also exposes […]
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Even at an early age, Mary Arnold, PHN, RNP, was trained to be a caregiver. Growing up in Memphis, Tenn., she learned to administer insulin shots at the tender age of nine to her grandmother who had diabetes. “I have
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Among the many challenges of trying to promote cancer screening and early detection in American Indian and Alaska Native communities is the reluctance to speak about it. Some Native people consider cancer to be an automatic death sentence, and some
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For more than 60 years, nurses from the Philippines have been immigrating to the U.S. in search of higher-paying jobs, opportunities for professional growth and the hope of a better life for themselves and their children. In the late 1940s
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Dear Deans of Nursing: A sense of urgency is upon us. Now, certainly not later, is the time to seriously consider starting a nurse anesthesia education program at your institution. Consider this fact: Of the 106 nurse anesthesia master’s degree
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Associate degree nursing students at the Alamo Colleges, a group of community colleges in San Antonio, Texas, benefit from flexible class scheduling, user-friendly study facilities, smaller class sizes, tutoring and supportive faculty. As the economic downturn has wiped out thousands
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During the 2008 presidential campaign, then candidate Barack Obama promised that if elected he would work to “ensure quality, affordable, accessible health care for First Americans.” His campaign Web site stated that “perhaps more than any other group, American Indians
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The need for diversity in the nurse anesthesia profession is a growing concern driven by the U.S. population’s rapidly changing demographics and the low representation of minorities in the nurse anesthesia workforce across the nation. As a result, efforts to
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According to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), nurses need to know that myeloma, a serious and often deadly blood cancer, affects a disproportionate number of African Americans. In fact, a recent article in the LLS newsletter, eNewsline, notes that
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Transforming Nursing Education: The Culturally Inclusive Environment By Susan Dandridge Bosher, PhD, MA, and Margaret Dexheimer Pharris, PhD, RN, MPH, FAAN (Editors) Springer Publishing Company, 2009 $50 (paperback) For years, the nursing profession has been grappling with the issue of
