Type 2 diabetes continues to be one of the most serious diseases that affects Americans of color disproportionately, but the good news is that it’s also one of the most preventable. That’s why the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a […]
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Many job seekers miss out on an opportunity to increase their salary and benefits, due to their lack of understanding of, and preparation for, the negotiation process. Unlike some career fields where salary negotiation has been impacted negatively by the
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Times and rules have changed a lot since I was first in nursing school back in the Â’60s, recalls Eddie Hebert, R.N., B.S.N., director of nurses at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Houma, La. However, many of the
Nursing students with disabilities are increasing in number throughout the United States, thanks in part to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.1 Although exact numbers are unknown, anecdotal reports of students with a wide variety
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When Rhys Gibson, RN, received his nursing degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009, the recession had started and it took him eight months to land a job. I thought I was the cat’s meow and everything
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Author’s Note: This article is dedicated in loving memory of Sheryl Jenkins-Bates, BSN (LaSalle University, Class of 2006)-A great friend, classmate and nurse. According to Merriam-Webster’s New American Dictionary, a novice is defined as someone who is “inexperienced or untrained”
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The number of nurses who search for health information on the World Wide Web is increasing every year. Whether you need the information for patient care or for personal reasons, it is important to be able to find reliable and
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While many nursing schools around the country have successfully increased their enrollments as well as the racial and ethnic diversity of their student populations, there continues to be a severe shortage of nursing faculty–and especially minority faculty. According to the
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The nursing profession has always been an advocate for providing community assessment, education, and health screenings to the public to promote healthier communities. Never has health promotion been more important than now. Healthy People 2020Â are leading the charge by providing
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A study published in the journal Cancer finds that black patients diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma (RCC)—the most common type of kidney cancer in adults—have a lower survival rate than white patients. Using data from the National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and
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