Can minority health disparities still exist even when people of color are the majority population? In the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), the answer is yes. Even though the residents of this U.S. territory are predominantly black (Afro-Caribbean) and Hispanic, they […]
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Q: I am a Muslim nurse who wears a religious headscarf (hijab). I would like to bring to your attention two negative experiences that happened to me while taking the exams for LPN and RN licensure in the state of
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National Rural Health Association One West Armour Boulevard, Suite 203 Kansas City , Mo. 64111-2087 (816) 756-3140www.nrharural.org Everyone knows that cities have a strong need for medical professionals. After all, we’ve all seen ER. On television shows, city emergency rooms
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The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) is a division of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NCMHD was established by the United States Congress through the Minority Health
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During her orientation as an emergency nurse at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Hollywood, Calif., Katherine Bolden, MSN, RN, helped care for a man who had come to the ER after falling and hitting his head. The medical staff suspected that
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In his 1996 book The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, best-selling spiritual writer Thomas Moore wrote: Without the ability to make temenos, we find ourselves in spaces that are purely functional and give us no more than an empty arena in
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Unlike many professionals these days, nurses can launch a job search with the confidence that they will find work–and quickly, at that. Thanks to one of the most severe nursing shortages in history, good nurses are in high demand all
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Edwin Drummond, RN, never knows what kinds of cases he’ll see as a flight nurse. He might treat a young man who has lost his leg in a motorcycle accident or an elderly woman who fell down a flight of
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, the familiar children’s rhyme goes. But if you are a nurse suffering from osteoporosis (porous bones), such routine on-the-job activities as lifting patients or carrying heavy medical equipment could put you at risk
Chris Burchill, Ph.D., R.N., C.E.N., still remembers the evening he was attacked by a patient. “I was on the phone with our social worker trying to help the patient obtain a ride home,” Burchill says. “Without any warning, he began
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