Most colleges and universities have strategic plans that articulate goals to strengthen faculty search procedures to increase the diversity of their staff. While such goals are important, they have come under attack in the past, even needing legal support. For […]
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Nurses spend their lives caring for others; in fact, they devote so much time to their patients (and families and loved ones) that they often push aside their own needs. To be sure, this selflessness is an honorable, admirable thing,
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When it comes to pediatrics, health professionals face a number of challenges in providing quality care for minority patients. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, severe racial and ethnic disparities exist in pediatric health and health care, and minority
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Mention the word “nurse” and who comes to mind? Maybe she’s a nurse of antiquity, dressed in white, wearing a cap in the shape of a winged angel, holding someone’s hand. Maybe she’s wearing bright cheerful scrubs, running a hospital
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There’s no sugarcoating it: pursuing a doctoral degree is tough. Balancing a clinical job with classes and homework—not to mention family time and your social life—takes determination and sacrifice. But if you’re prepared for the challenge, that hard-won degree may
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On January 12, 2011, little seven pound, 10 ounce, 20.5 inches long Carson joined the Samantis family after a fairly easy pregnancy and uncomplicated delivery. Until Carson was born, both his mother, Kristen, an interventional cardiology nurse at Massachusetts General
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Nursing education is about immersion—jumping into the clinical environment head first, ready to get messy. Of course, it’s interspersed with APA papers, seminars, evidence-based projects, and care plans. But students learn by watching, practicing, and emulating what they see senior
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Computer nurse, IT nurse, techie nurse. These are some of the titles nurses specializing in informatics have recently acquired and might still be using. However, nursing informatics is about more than just understanding computers and technology. Nurses—whether a charge nurse
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It is often said, “We are a product of our environments.” In many respects this is true. In the African American culture, we tend to embrace the habits and behaviors of our surroundings. We don’t think of our childhood or
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Because he wanted a “visceral take” on his potential subjects, Christopher Coleman, Ph.D., M.S., M.P.H., A.P.R.N.-B.C., A.C.R.N., F.A.A.N., sat for weeks in the waiting rooms of five Philadelphia clinics just getting to know older HIV-positive African American men, their families,
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