Over the years, a multitude of research data has confirmed that occurrence rates for breast cancer are lower for minority women than for Caucasian women. In fact, Native American women have a lower incidence rate for this disease than most […]
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On a warm spring night in Miami, one of the nation’s foremost African-American oncology nursing scholars and researchers, Sandra Millon Underwood, RN, PhD, FAAN, is delivering an impassioned speech to a group of about 30 cancer nursing educators and clinicians
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You’ve spent four years in nursing school, reading, training and practicing. Then it happens. You graduate. Suddenly, someone else’s life is in your hands. The transition from student nurse to practicing RN can seem abrupt, even after years of preparation.
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Genetic testing to determine an individual’s likelihood of developing certain diseases is no longer a futuristic notion in health care. One need look no further than the Internet to find companies advertising genetic testing for various cancers–such as breast cancer,
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The last hurdle a new nursing school graduate must clear before he or she can practice as a nurse is often the most stressful one: taking the NCLEX-RN®. This licensing examination, developed by the National Council of State Boards of
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Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from a presentation given by Dr. Robertson at the Oncology Nursing Society’s Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Program for HBCU/MSI Nurses: Dissemination Colloquium, May 3-4, 2002 in Miami. Recent studies have shown that racial
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Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from the research paper Implementation of Breast Cancer Awareness Programs in the Community Involving Nursing Students, presented by the author at the Oncology Nursing Society’s Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Program for HBCU/MSI Nurses:
Gwendylon Johnson, RNC, MA, has been a registered nurse for 30 years—and for nearly 20 of those years, she has also been a union activist within the District of Columbia Nurses’ Association. To Johnson, the two roles are perfectly in
A patient was scheduled to have open-heart surgery at a Nashville hospital last year when a thorny problem arose. The woman’s husband insisted that no African-American men be present in the operating room during the surgery. According to newspaper accounts,
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Of the 2.2 million nurses in the United States, the vast majority still conforms to the traditional white/female nurse profile. Only 4%-5% of nurses are male, 4% are African American, 3.4% are Asian/Pacific islander, 1.6% are Hispanic and 0.5% are
