Last summer I enjoyed the honor and great privilege of presenting a poster session with my former colleague Anderson Torres, PhD, LCSW-R, at the 34th Annual Conference of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN). The conference was held in […]
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A unanimous vote in the U.S. Senate made it official: Lillian Sparks is the new Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans, a wing of the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services. A
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African American women over the age of 49 years old are contracting the HIV/AIDS disease at alarming rates, yet little attention is given towards their prevention needs. HIV/AIDS prevention teaching for postmenopausal black women is imperative to reduce the incidences
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Not only does diabetes run rampant among Native Americans, it has recently reached epidemic levels in third-world countries as well. In May 2008, a team from Ada, Oklahoma, comprised of East Central University (ECU) nursing program graduates and Chickasaw Nation
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Clinical trials are an important part of the fight against cancer, but minority participation in these trials has always been low. Enabling Minority Participation in Clinical Trials, or EMPaCT, is the newest initiative to come out of the National Center
Nursing schools looking to increase the diversity of their faculty have a great new tool at their disposal. They can find certified minority nurse educators in a flash using the Minority Nurse Educator database, a free service provided by the
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My journey into the world of online education as a student was a completely new experience for me. I had attended traditional universities to obtain my associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing. While serving in the Army Nurse Corps
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Increasingly, men are pursuing careers in nursing, attracted by the same benefits that have traditionally drawn women to the profession: abundant job opportunities, good salaries and, above all, the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives. Even though men
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Last March, the Obama administration announced that it would allocate $1.1 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding over a two-year period to expand comparative effectiveness research (CER) activities at federal health agencies. Specifically, $400 million
Tune into a television medical drama and most often you will get a glimpse into the emergency department of a hospital. Nighttime TV portrays the fast-paced environment of the ER as an exciting, even sexy, place for nurses to work.
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