Today, 24 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) offer baccalaureate-level nursing programs. During the first half of the 20th century—and in some cases, even earlier—HBCU nursing schools provided a gateway into the profession for generations of African Americans nurses who […]
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons are 50% to 200% more likely to smoke than the rest of the population, according to the National LGBT Tobacco Control Network. That’s one of the highest smoking rates of any minority group
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From the moment Sheldon D. Fields, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, AACRN, FNAP, FAANP, joined the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC), he felt right at home. As a nurse who also happens to be African American, male and gay, Fields
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Last summer, Rodelia Busalpa, BSN, RN, a student in the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program at Samuel Merritt University (formerly Samuel Merritt College) in Oakland, Calif., had a unique opportunity to not only learn about the health care needs of
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Mary Jo Coll Drexel University $1,000 Scholarship Type of Nursing Program: Accelerated Career Entry Nursing Program (BA-to-BSN)Graduation Date: August 2009GPA: 4.0 Mary Jo in Her Own Words: For the past 20 years, I have worked in business. Since completing my
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As the youngest and first Asian American president of AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons), Jennie Chin Hansen, RN, MS, FAAN, embodies the changing face of this important advocacy organization and its 40 million members, one-third of whom
For any student pursuing a nursing degree, the clinical rotations are where you really earn your pin. In clinical studies you put into practice what you learn in theory, says José Blanco, MSN, MEd, RN, instructor in clinical nursing and
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For many African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities, the intensive care unit is the end of the line. According to a 2006 study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, a greater proportion of African Americans in particular
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Even though rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in the U.S. have declined substantially in recent years, SIDS deaths are still disproportionately high among certain racial and ethnic minority populations. African American babies are more than twice as likely
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When my son Ziyad was three, he began to regress in his development. He lost his ability to communicate and socialize. My little boy had stopped talking and had started to act socially detached. First, Ziyad walked on his tiptoes
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