Two of California’s most distinguished minority nurses, both of whom have devoted much of their careers to mentoring, teaching and developing training programs for students from underserved communities entering health care professions, were honored this summer by The California Wellness […]
California Nurses Honored as Champions of Health Care Diversity Read More »
Several recent articles in Minority Nurse have examined how the emerging field of health care genetics and genomics has begun to revolutionize the way researchers and clinicians are working to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes. Being able
Landmark Human Genomics Study Seeks Genetic Causes of Diabetes Read More »
A medication traditionally associated with the treatment of cancer and AIDS has emerged as a surprise weapon in the fight against sickle-cell anemia, the painful and often fatal inherited blood disorder that occurs primarily in African Americans. A new research
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Imagine that someone in your family is hospitalized in critical condition. Now imagine being denied the right to confer with the doctors and nurses or even to see your loved one. Unthinkable? Yet in many parts of the country, it’s
Gay Advocacy Groups Campaign for Same-Sex Hospital Visitation Rights Read More »
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination–Persons with Limited-English Proficiency) requires any health care facility that receives federal funding to provide bilingual or interpreter services to patients who don’t speak English. Even in facilities where
Linguistic Competence for the 21st Century Read More »
In the spring of 1953, 14 African-American students at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Ala., received their bachelor of science degrees in nursing–and took their place in history. Not only had these young women graduated from the first BSN program established
Nation’s First HBCU Baccalaureate Nursing Program Celebrates 50th Year Read More »
It all started with a conversation that took place in 1999 between the deans of two highly respected schools of nursing–one of them an Ivy League school, the other a historically black university. These two academic leaders shared a common,
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In a keynote address delivered to a recent meeting of the Blue Ribbon Panel to Increase Seat Belt Use Among African Americans, U.S. Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.) informed the panel that the seat belt campaign was vitally important, not only
Organizations Unite to Increase Seat Belt Use Among African Americans Read More »
Imagine a resource that is designed to make life easier, one that allows you to maintain all your priorities without sacrificing any of them—and the only obligation is to want it badly enough. Now consider that probably no one knows
Parental Guidance Suggested Read More »
A new program, Get With the Guidelines, is playing an important role in heart disease prevention by significantly increasing the number of health care providers who follow the American Heart Association (AHA)’s guidelines for preventing second heart attacks. This program
New Program Helps Reduce Risk of Reoccurring Heart Attacks Read More »
