In her mind’s eye, Capt. Mary Lambert can still picture the children walking to school, just as children do in neighborhoods everywhere, talking in small groups as they amble along. Except in this scene, they are walking along streets lined […]
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With America’s severe nursing shortage predicted to reach emergency levels by 2010, a national coalition of nursing leaders has united to launch a sweeping strategic action plan for ensuring the profession’s future health. Unveiled this summer at the 2002 American
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Physicians across the nation can expect to be busier than usual this fall, thanks to a new health promotion campaign launched by the federal Office of Minority Health (OMH). As part of the national initiative to eliminate racial and ethnic
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With a near crisis-level RN staffing shortage now affecting just about every part of the nation, today it seems like all you have to do to find a city with an urgent demand for nurses is to throw a dart
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When the Leadie Eddie van visits neighborhoods in south Newark, N.J., to screen children for lead poisoning, the tiny patients are not appreciative. Dozens of babies and toddlers join in a noisy chorus of crying as they get their fingers
By now, most of us within the health care sector have already become well-acquainted with the impending and grim statistics facing the United States, mainly in regards to the staggering dearth in our nursing profession purportedly by the year 2014.
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According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, American Indians and Alaska Natives are 2.3 times more likely to suffer from diabetes than Caucasian Americans and are about 4.3 times more likely to die from the
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What better way for a national health care organization to commemorate Black History Month than by honoring the historical contributions of African American nurses? For Black History Month 2009, VITAS Innovative Hospice Care, the nation’s largest provider of end-of-life care
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Do credentialing examinations for nurses, such as the NCLEX-RN? and specialty certification exams, put minority and foreign-educated candidates at a disadvantage? Or are these tests indeed culturally sensitive and fair to all who take them, regardless of race, ethnicity or
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons consists of more than 106 institutions, six regional offices, a Central Office (headquarters), two staff training centers and 28 community corrections offices. The Bureau is responsible for the custody and care of approximately 185,000 Federal
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