In a presentation at the 2002 American Nurses Association convention, C. Alicia Georges, RN, EdD, FAAN, president of the National Black Nurses Foundation, reported that lack of health literacy has been identified as a significant barrier to closing the disparity […]
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More Americans are getting face lifts and other types of cosmetic surgery these days–and more of those faces being lifted are likely to be non-Caucasian than ever before A report released in February by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic
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The inclusion of cardiovascular disease as one of the six target areas of the Department of Health and Human ServicesÂ’ Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health has created a heightened need for more culturally sensitive nurse researchers
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The ambitious goal of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s Healthy People 2010program is to ensure good health and long life for all Americans. By definition, the term all Americans would obviously include Hispanics. But according to
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 In the year 2000, 86% of Caucasian children in the U.S. were reported by their parents to be in excellent or very good health, compared to only 75% of Hispanic children and 74% of African-American children. In addition, about
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When you hear the name of acclaimed African-American writer Maya Angelou, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Her best-selling autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings? Her poem On the Pulse of Morning, which she read at
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Under former President Bill Clinton’s administration, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) set a pattern of tapping minority nurses to serve in key health care policy-making roles. Among them were Beverly Malone, RN, PhD, FAAN, who held
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Because America urgently needs more minority nurse researchers who can investigate the causes of racial and ethnic health disparities and test preventive interventions, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $2.4 million grant to the National Coalition of
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 Yolanda Talbert at her BSN graduation; starting nursing school at age 37 was a challenge. I’m the kind of nurse who wants to get as much as possible out of my career rather than staying in one area, says
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Did you know that abolitionist leaders Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth both worked as nurses during the Civil War? Can you name the first black nurse to join the American Red Cross Nursing Service? (Answer: Frances Reed Elliott Davis, in
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