As nurses, we’re expected to provide quality health care to people from a variety of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Without diversity among our ranks, it’s almost impossible to do that. That’s how May Wykle, RN, PhD, FAAN, explains her decision […]
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In our last column, “Informatics: New Opportunities in Nursing,” we discussed how the expanding role of computers and technology in our lives has pervaded health care settings, creating new opportunities for professionals interested in careers in nursing informatics. With the
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An African-American nurse zooms through the air on jet-propelled shoes while a poem tells the story of nurses with rocket shoes who flew to Mars and went faster than cars. A racially and gender-diverse group of costumed superheroes invites boys
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Nurses who have been following the progress of the federal Office of Minority Health (OMH)’s landmark project to develop a set of comprehensive national standards for culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) in health care know that the final version
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Cheryl Nicks, RN, CNNP, CGT, CLNC, CPLC, had heard the evacuation warnings before. As a New Orleans native and longtime resident of the city, she remembered the times she had piled her belongings into a car and then sat in
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When her third child, Ian, was a baby, Zenora Thompson knew something was different. At first, Ian mirrored his talkative family and verbalized normally. But, suddenly, he stopped talking completely and became fretful. “Nothing would satisfy him,” says Thompson, who
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Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, nurses were perceived as people whose job consisted of following orders, and nurses who were racial or ethnic minorities were routinely steered toward dead-end jobs with little hope of advancement. Nowadays, of
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Would rewarding health care providers for delivering equal-opportunity treatment motivate America’s medical system to work harder at eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities? That’s the intriguing premise behind new legislation proposed this summer by Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.). His initiative,
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American nursing history, as it is usually taught, credits Florence Nightingale as the pioneer of the modern nursing model, often excluding the black nurse experience and leaders. But there was another “lady with a lamp,” Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole. She
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A 1992 study conducted by the American College of Health Care Executives and the National Association of Health Services Executives revealed that minorities make up 20% of hospital employees but only 1% of hospital management. Nearly a decade later, nurses
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