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Advocating Change and Developing Policies in Practice
Nurses can make a huge difference in health care practice by participating in policymaking.
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A Quiet Crisis: Racial Disparities and Infant Mortality
The shocking but rarely discussed statistics surrounding infant mortality in the U.S. merit more attention than calm clinical discussion.
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Health Care Reform One Year Later
Last summer saw the historic passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But what is to become of this hotly contested legislation?
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A New Caregiving Role: Elected Official
Minority nurses are bringing their perspectives from the hospitals of America to Congress, shaping U.S. health care policies.
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Looking for Black Nurses Leaders: A Call to Action
The nurses who authored Advancing the Dream through Faculty Diversity and this article, each reached out to Minority Nurse in search of a place to share their experiences as nurses, as African Americans. From different areas of the country and different professional backgrounds, never knowing one another, they both submitted abstracts that put forth the same beliefs and arguments, grounded in a desire to improve diversity in the workplace as a means to improve the quality of life in the black community.
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Better smiles for better health
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is launching an initiative aimed at making the relationship between oral health and overall wellness a top priority
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Excellence in Nursing: The SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program
Five nurses and their mission to improve culturally competent mental health and substance abuse care across the United States
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What Works Best
Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is the most recent tool the federal government has added to its arsenal of strategies for eliminating minority health disparities. The question is:
Can it deliver?
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New Co-Pay Assistance Program Helps Fight Blood Cancer Disparities
Because blood cancer medicines are expensive, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has launched a new program to help myeloma patients who are having trouble affording their prescriptions
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Putting Minority Health into Health Reform
Health reform efforts must focus not just on insurance coverage but on closing the gap of unequal health outcomes between Americans of color and their white counterparts.
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Boomer in Chief
As the first Asian American president of AARP, Jennie Chin Hansen, RN, MS, FAAN, brings a unique combination of nursing expertise, advocacy and cultural competence to the national dialogue on ensuring quality health care for older Americans.
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Yes Nurses Can
Minority Nurse's open letter on healthcare to newly elected President Barack Obama.
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Minority Children’s Health Gets Poor Report Card
In the year 2000, 86% of Caucasian children in the U.S. were reported by their parents to be in excellent or very good health, compared to only 75% of Hispanic children and 74% of African-American children.
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Are NCLEX® Testing Policies Culturally Insensitive?
A Muslim nurse’s experience of bias while taking the boards underscores the need for test center regulations that acknowledge and respect candidates’ cultural differences
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Lieberman Introduces Incentive-Based Health Disparities Legislation
FairCare, an initiative of Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), calls for the medical community to establish quantifiable standards of treatment for all patients, to help ensure fairness and consistency of care. But even more important, FairCare would offer financial incentives to providers who show a commitment to leveling the health care playing field.
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Fighting the Meth Addiction Epidemic in Indian Country
Although methamphetamine abuse is a relatively new phenomenon in American Indian communities, it is quickly reaching crisis proportions. Here’s how nurses are helping patients and tribes find solutions to this devastating problem.
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