The start of my junior year medical-surgical rotation began the same way it usually does for many other nursing students–with a feeling of nervousness due to the uncertainty of how my first day on the clinical unit would evolve. Upon […]
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Although she didn’t know it then, a personal trauma in 1994 changed the course of Karen Coleman’s professional career. Coleman, an emergency room RN at the time, was raped by her then-husband, who had been barred from her home by
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The next time you read a statistic such as there are 2 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. with no health insurance or visits to the emergency room represent 18.8% of total visits to health care facilities
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A decade ago, a smattering of nursing schools first began offering degree and certificate programs that focus specifically on minority health, eliminating health disparities and serving the needs of vulnerable patient populations. More recently, however, both the number and quality
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The literature from professional nursing organizations is full of recommendations that nurses continue to advance their education by pursuing doctoral degrees, either in clinical practice or in research. In 2004 the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), after studying
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As a Chinese American patient neared death in a nursing home, her family members wanted to follow their Buddhist tradition of gathering around their loved one to chant for 12 hours before and four hours after her passing. It was
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As just about everyone knows by now, Hispanics are not only the largest ethnic minority group in the U.S., they are also the fastest-growing. Yet study after study–from the Institute of Medicine’s 2003 Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities
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There is a saying in our profession that nurses eat their young–referring to the way certain veteran nurses are said to treat new nursing graduates. But just what does this statement mean? Are nurses like wild animals that carry their
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Jamaican-born Diane Johnson, BSN, RN, MBA, dreamed of becoming a nurse at a very young age. Today, Johnson’s professional journey has led her far beyond what most people think a typical nurse’s job should be. As vice president of patient
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“As far back as I can remember, I was always interested in science, but nursing was never part of my vocabulary,” Fong said. “Growing up, I had a complete lack of understanding about the multifaceted world of nursing. It’s almost
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