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Inspired Toward Nursing: Culturally Responsive Community-Based Learning
Exploring the key elements for culturally responsive community-based learning
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In the Field: Hospice Team Targets Manhattan’s Chinatown
How registered nurses and other clinicians from the VNSNY Asian Hospice team care for patients and their families in New York City's Chinatowns
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Culturally Competent Nurse Anesthesia Care
The changing demographics of the citizens of the United States compels health care providers to adapt and deliver culturally competent care to underrepresented minorities, particularly in the nurse anesthesia profession.
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Thinking Outside the Cultural Comfort Zone
In this Guest Editorial, pharmacology professor Rev. Steven K. Wheeler, MSN, RN, stresses the importance of respect and open-mindedness in nursing professionals toward all cultural traditions.
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Minority Women and Intimate Partner Violence
Nurses can play an important role in developing culturally sensitive interventions to help victims of physical, sexual and emotional abuse
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Linguistic Competence and the Law
How nurses and hospitals that serve limited-English-speaking patients can protect themselves from translation liability
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“Culture and Autism”—A Reader Responds
In response to the Spring 2009 Second Opinion column written by Estela Dimes, BSN, RN, we received this letter from Zenora Thompson, MSN, RN, an instructor in the nursing program at Kent State University's Ashtabula Campus in Ashtabula, Ohio, and the mother of a 22-year-old with autism
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Comic Strip Helps Raise Diabetes Awareness in the Hispanic Community
To help spread the word about this serious health threat, Baldo co-creators Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos partnered with the National Alliance for Hispanic Health
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Nurses, Culture and Cancer
Through culturally competent outreach, education, research and patient care, nurses can make a dramatic difference in reducing minority cancer disparities
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Students on a Mission
A class trip to Southeast Asia gives a diverse group of FNP students the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of global health care challenges while helping the underserved.
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Maximizing Minority Students’ Success in Clinicals
What clinical faculty can do to help students of color and male students overcome barriers to successful performance in this crucial stage of their nursing education.
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Kids Come in All Colors
With the population of Americans under the age of 18 becoming more and more culturally diverse, minority pediatric nurses and nurse practitioners are in increasingly high demand.
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What Critical Care Nurses Need to Know About Minority Health Disparities
Why are some racial and ethnic minority patients so much sicker than their white counterparts when they’re admitted to the ICU? A variety of complex medical, socio-economic and cultural factors are to blame.
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Culture and Autism
A nurse with an autistic son and a multicultural marriage shares her personal insights on how different cultures have different ways of thinking about and coping with autism in the family
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Trouble in Paradise
In Hawaii, nurses are helping Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders reconnect with their traditional culture to combat a daunting array of health disparities
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In Memoriam
Remembering Janice Kekahbah, MSN, RN, American Indian Nursing Leader and Ruth Davidhizar, DNS, RN, ARNP, BC, FAAN, Transcultural Nursing Expert.
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Cultural Competence to Become Part of Hospital Accreditation Process
The Joint Commission is working to develop the first-ever accreditation standards for the provision of culturally competent patient-centered care.
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How to Treat Your Patients With CLAS
Did you know that OMH has produced a Final Report on the standards in a handy paperback book format that makes an excellent desktop resource for nurses in clinical practice who want to help their health care institutions implement the CLAS guidelines?
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School Days
Although budget cutbacks are restricting hiring in some states, America’s school districts are facing an unprecedented need for school nurses who can provide care to students with a diverse range of cultural and medical needs.
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Ready for Anything
While no one wants to imagine that another 9/11 or a bioterrorism attack could happen, the reality is that nurses and communities must be prepared to respond to such threats. Nurses of color can play a crucial leadership role in bringing culturally competent terrorism preparedness to America’s diverse communities.
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