Building Culturally Competent HIV/AIDS Care: Models, Tools, and Field-Tested Strategies Editor’s note: Part one of this series (Fall 2006) showcased minority nurses who created successful solutions to improve HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in communities of color. What’s working now Closing […]
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In the 25 years I have been a bedside nurse and the 15 simultaneous years as a nursing faculty member, I have seen plenty of changes in how health care is delivered and how nursing is taught. What has not
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When Christina Rojas-Fletes, MSN, RN, ANP-C, began preparing to take her first job as a nurse several years ago, she encountered an unexpected problem. She found that nurses’ scrubs sold in retail and uniform stores were bland, baggy and poorly
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MN is saddened to report that M. Elizabeth Carnegie, DPA, RN, FAAN, a pioneering educator, author and unceasing champion of racial equality in nursing, passed away on February 20 at the age of 91. Her extraordinary accomplishments in advancing educational
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Opinion polls have shown that many Americans feel the U.S. government’s initial response to Hurricane Katrina was ineffective at best, incompetent and even racist at worst. In the wake of the disaster, however, one federal agency that does seem to
Office of Minority Health Awards $12 Million in Katrina Relief Grants Read More »
In 1985, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health, a landmark eight-volume report documenting the extent of health disparities affecting Americans of color and recommending
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The federal Office of Minority Health (OMH) calls it one of the most serious but frequently neglected minority health disparities in the United States: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders (APIs) have the highest rates of chronic hepatitis
OMH, CDC Take Action to Fight Hepatitis B in Asian Americans Read More »
Eun-Ok Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, and her colleagues are conducting a study to explore ethnic differences in midlife women’s attitudes toward physical activity. You are eligible to participate in
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When listening to Valerie Fong, M.S.N., R.N., speak, it does not take long to recognize how committed she is to her journey to improve the care experience for both clinicians and patients. In a 2006 issue of Minority Nurse, a
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In the Fall 2009 issue of Minority Nurse, we published “Preventing Premature Birth Disparities,” an article written by Monique Blair, BSN, and Carol Eliadi, EdD, JD, APRN. The article examined the growing crisis of high preterm birth rates in women
Preventing Premature Birth Disparities–A Reader Responds Read More »
