You’ve decided on a career in allied health, but how do you get from where you are now to the career or your dreams? Figuring out where you’re headed is a great start, but it is only the beginning. Now […]
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A love of nature and the importance of living a simple, natural life are the basis of Hinduism, a faith that originated in India and is generally acknowledged to be the world’s oldest and third largest religion. Like Buddhism, the
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As nurses, we’re expected to provide quality health care to people from a variety of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Without diversity among our ranks, it’s almost impossible to do that. That’s how May Wykle, RN, PhD, FAAN, explains her decision
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In our last column, “Informatics: New Opportunities in Nursing,” we discussed how the expanding role of computers and technology in our lives has pervaded health care settings, creating new opportunities for professionals interested in careers in nursing informatics. With the
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An African-American nurse zooms through the air on jet-propelled shoes while a poem tells the story of nurses with rocket shoes who flew to Mars and went faster than cars. A racially and gender-diverse group of costumed superheroes invites boys
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Nurses who have been following the progress of the federal Office of Minority Health (OMH)’s landmark project to develop a set of comprehensive national standards for culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) in health care know that the final version
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Cheryl Nicks, RN, CNNP, CGT, CLNC, CPLC, had heard the evacuation warnings before. As a New Orleans native and longtime resident of the city, she remembered the times she had piled her belongings into a car and then sat in
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When her third child, Ian, was a baby, Zenora Thompson knew something was different. At first, Ian mirrored his talkative family and verbalized normally. But, suddenly, he stopped talking completely and became fretful. “Nothing would satisfy him,” says Thompson, who
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