Linda Burnes Bolton, DrPH, RN, FAAN Linda Burnes Bolton, DrPH, RN, FAAN. American Association of Nurse Executives (AONE) 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Burnes Bolton, who is vice president and chief nursing officer at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles as […]
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Are you looking for cancer education materials for patients who speak Asian and Pacific Islander (API) languages such as Hmong, Vietnamese, Korean, Samoan and Tongan? If so, you’re not alone. In the first six months since it was launched, the
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Careers in government nursing are as varied as nursing careers in the private sector. However, when many nurses hear “government nursing,” they may assume that means working for a veterans hospital. But the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) is only
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As anyone in the field would surely attest, nursing is a career that is both incredibly rewarding while also fraught with significant demands and challenges. One area in particular that has been making strides in supporting nurses is the expanded
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If you’re looking for a new nursing job (or your first), you might think heading to the nearest city is your best betlots of people needing lots of nursing care, right? Or maybe you’re considering rural areaswith everyone concentrated in
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The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Board of Directors endorsed the document Americans for Nursing Shortage Relief (ANSR) at a meeting this past fall. ANSR’s goal is to encourage Congress to implement a comprehensive set of initiatives
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If you were asked to name a chronic disease that affects African Americans disproportionately compared to whites, sarcoidosis would probably not be the first name to spring to mind. Even though sarcoidosis was first identified more than a century ago,
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Infant mortality is one of the six target areas of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s ongoing initiative to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health by the year 2010. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is one
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Phylicia Rashad at Wayne State University’s Hilberry Theater on 26 April 2005Creative Commons image used courtesy of Dmetric Former President Bill Clinton’s initiative to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health categorizes cardiovascular disease and diabetes as two separate health
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Nursing programs at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs)–such as the Nursing Departments of Oglala Lakota College in Pine Ridge, S.D., Sisseton Wahpeton Community College in Sisseton, S.D., and Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Mont.–play a tremendously key role in helping
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