Professional nursing in the Middle Eastern nation of Oman has grown rapidly since the country’s 1970 modernization of its health care system. In fact, over the last 10 years nursing has become one of the fastest-growing professions in the country. […]
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I am a recent graduate of the BSN nursing program at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces, N.M. I am also Native American, a member of the Navajo tribe. My family and I live on the Navajo reservation
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A Compassionate Leader A highly motivated young man who has overcome many obstacles in life, demonstrating warmth, grace and leadership. That’s how professors at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) School of Nursing describe Tinh Lam, winner of a
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It’s not uncommon for college students to participate in an internship-type program prior to graduation. However, it is highly uncommon to experience that internship with one of the leading experts in your field of study. But that’s exactly what happened
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Since becoming a nurse in 1991, Rose Khalifa, RN, has devoted her career to reaching out to culturally diverse communities, including the large Arab American population in southeast Michigan. She is a respected authority on transcultural nursing and has been
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Hurricane Katrina was the most devastating and costly natural disaster in American history, claiming many lives, destroying billions of dollars in property in the Gulf Coast region and leaving thousands of families homeless and grieving. At least 689,000 homes and
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Some public health problems are so extensive that they can only be solved with a coalition of support from health care professionals and the community at large. Dinah Ramirez, RN, president of the Illinois Hispanic Nurses Association, a local chapter
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Brimming with enthusiasm her first day on the job, the young African-American nurse walks into her very first patient’s room and introduces herself. The patient responds, You can just get your black a** out of my room. Although this painful
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Their numbers are growing, yet men still make up only about 5% of the nurses in America. In many ways, it’s hard to understand why that percentage is so low. As a career, nursing offers a unique combination of job
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The city looked like it had been bombed. But in fact, it was an act of nature that had caused such devastation–more specifically, the force of Hurricane Katrina. Never before had I seen such destruction and total wreckage of what
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