Meet Our Writers
Meet the contributing writers and authors of Minority Nurse magazine. Interested in writing for us? Read our Writer's Guidelines.
| A. Jodi Gooden, RNC, MS, CNS | A. Jodi Gooden, RNC, MS, CNS, is a PhD candidate at Barry University in Miami Shores, Fla. |
| Aaron Dalton | Aaron Dalton (www.imaginationwins.com) is a New York City-based free-lance journalist who writes regularly on health topics. |
| Adela Pena, M.Ed | Adela Pena, M.Ed., is the assistant director of the Office of Career Services at the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
| Alex Grosko and Jeffrey T. Rudolph, MBA | Alex Grosko is a manager of business analysis and information at Amgen, Inc., and a founding member of ANGLE. Jeffrey T. Rudolph, MBA, has 15 years of pharmaceutical sales and marketing experience and has worked in pharmaceutical sales, marketing, R&D, and for three medical advertising agencies. He has also developed many medical marketing communications programs and has in-depth knowledge across numerous therapeutic areas. |
| Alice B. Britt, MSN, APRN, CS | Alice B. Britt, MSN, APRN, CS, is a clinical specialist in psychiatry/mental health with a private practice in Washington, D.C. She is also a doctoral candidate and part-time clinical faculty member at The Catholic University of America. |
| Anitra Ellerby-Brown, MS, RN, CNM, Trickera Sims, MSPH, RN, and Mavis Schorn, PhD, RN, CNM | Anitra Ellerby-Brown, MS, RN, CNM, and Trickera Sims, MSPH, RN, are August 2008 graduates of the Nurse-Midwifery/Family Nurse Practitioner program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville. Mavis Schorn, PhD, RN, CNM, is an assistant professor and director of the Nurse-Midwifery Program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. |
| Anne Baye Ericksen | Anne Baye Ericksen is a free-lance writer based in Southern California. |
| Anne W. Davis, PhD, RN, Deborah L. Flowers, PhD, RN, and Judy Goforth Parker, PhD, RN | Dr. Anne W. Davis is a professor of nursing at East Central University (ECU) in Ada, Okla., and serves as project director for Nursing Education with Enhanced Retention Activities (NEW ERA). Dr. Deborah Flowers is program coordinator of ECU @ Southeastern Department of Nursing and an associate professor of nursing at ECU. Dr. Judy Goforth Parker is a professor of nursing at ECU and is retention coordinator for NEW ERA. |
| Barbara Marquand | Barbara Marquand is a free-lance writer based in Reno, Nevada. |
| Benjamin Green Jr., RN | Benjamin Green Jr., RN, graduated from the University of Louisiana at Monroe(ULM) School of Nursing in 1997. He is currently employed as a staff nurse at the VA Medical Center in Oklahoma City. |
| Beverly Patchell, RN, MS, CNS | Beverly Patchell, RN, MS, CNS, is an advanced practice nurse with certification in Child and Adolescent Psych/Mental Health and Advanced Nursing Administration. She currently serves as project director for the American Indian Nursing Student Success Program at the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing. Her tribal affiliation is Cherokee/Muscogee. |
| By Juliene G. Lipson, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Suzanne L. Dibble, DNSc, RN [eds.] | |
| CAPT Colleen Reid, BSN, RN | CAPT Colleen Reid, BSN, RN, is a military nurse who currently works at the Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center in Germany. |
| Cara T. Hoepner, MS, RN, CNS, NP and Donna Maheady, EdD, ARNP | Cara T. Hoepner, MS, RN, CNS, NP, is an advanced practice nurse living with bipolar disorder. She provides urgent care psychiatric services to a largely homeless population in San Francisco, mentors nurses and nursing students with mental illness and serves as a consultant to the board of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) San Francisco. Donna Maheady, EdD, ARNP, is the founder and president of ExceptionalNurse.com. |
| Cathy Nahirny, BA, and Ann Scofield, BA, JD | Cathy Nahirny, BA, is administrative manager of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)’s Jimmy Ryce Law Enforcement Training Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Ann Scofield, BA, JD, is the manager of NCMEC’s Project ALERT. |
| Celia Colista | Celia Colista is a New York-based free-lance writer who specializes in career issues. |
| Chelan David | Chelan David is a free-lance writer based in Seattle. |
| Chris Enstrom | Chris Enstrom has extensive experience in career management issues. He currently works as a career counselor at Indiana University and at the Career Resource Center of Brown County in Nashville, Ind. |
| Christine A. Hinz | Christine A. Hinz is a free-lance writer based in Milwaukee. |
| Cora Muñoz, PhD, RN, and Joan Luckmann, MA, RN | |
| Corliss Voncille Booker, PhD, MPH, RN-BC, CHES | Corliss Voncille Booker, PhD, MPH, RN-BC, CHES, is the Magnet program director at Overton Brooks Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. |
| Cynthia Thomas, R.N.-C, C.D.O.N.A., Ed.D. | Cynthia Thomas, R.N.-C, C.D.O.N.A., Ed.D., is an assistant nursing professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. |
| Danica T. Fulbright, BSN, and Gayle M. Timmerman, RN, PhD, CNS | Danica T. Fulbright, BSN, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing in May 2001. She has been involved in research for the last six years and plans to pursue graduate studies in the area of maternal-child health. Gayle M. Timmerman, PhD, RN, CNS, is an associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing. She is completing work on her NINR-funded grant, “Dieting, Deprivation and Nonpurge Binge Eating,” which served as the parent grant for Danica Fulbright’s Research Supplement for Underrepresented Minorities. |
| Darrell Burrell | Darrell Burrell has over 10 years of health care management experience. He has completed graduate degrees in management, human resources and education. In 2006 he was a Presidential Management Fellow working at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. |
| Debbie Ann Jones, RN, MS | Debbie Ann Jones, RN, MS, is an instructor at Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing in Houston, Texas. |
| Deborah E. Clark | Deborah E. Clark is associate director of media relations at Alfred State College in Alfred, N.Y. |
| Deborah Leigh Wood | Deborah Leigh Wood is a free-lance writer from Evanston, Ill. |
| Debra Williams | Debra Williams is a freelance writer in Russellville, Tennessee. |
| Denene Brox | Denene Brox is a freelance writer based in Kansas City, Kansas. Visit her online at www.DeneneBrox.com. |
| Denise L. Martin, RN, BSN | Denise L. Martin, RN, BSN, is a student at Southern University and A&M |
| Diana Brown-Brumfield, RN, MSN, CNS | Diana Brown-Brumfield, RN, MSN, CNS, is the education coordinator for the Department of Surgical Services at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. She has been a nurse for over 30 years and is nearing completion of a Family Nurse Practitioner program at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio. |
| Donna Carol Maheady, EdD, CPNP, RN, and Susan E. Fleming, BSN, RN | Donna Carol Maheady, EdD, CPNP, RN, is an adjunct assistant professor of nursing at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and founder of www.ExceptionalNurse.com. Susan E. Fleming, BSN, RN, is a staff nurse at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., and a childbirth class coordinator at St. Joseph’s Hospital (Chewelah, Wash.). She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Washington. |
| Doris M. Boutain, RN, PhD | Doris M. Boutain, RN, PhD, is a research consultant in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington, Seattle, and a member of the National Black Nurses Association. |
| Dorothy Budzi, RN, MS, MPH | Dorothy Budzi, RN, MS, MPH has worked in public health for five years and is currently a nurse manager for a 34-bed medical unit at the Dallas VA Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She developed a patient education brochure about wound care that is being used in all VA hospitals in the United States. |
| Elizabeth Valente | Elizabeth Valente is associate director of publications and media relations at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, California. |
| Elsie Soto, RN | Elsie Soto, RN, is a professional home care nurse who works for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) in New York City. |
| Eniola O. Dawodu | Eniola O. Dawodu is a senior-year nursing student at the University of Florida, Gainesville. |
| Eric L. Coleman, LPN | Eric L. Coleman, LPN, works with the veteran population at a long-term care VA facility in Brecksville, Ohio. He plans to continue his education in nursing and he enjoys writing in his spare time. |
| Ericka Marengo | Ericka Marengo graduated in May 2007 from the BSN program at the University of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania. |
| Estela Dimes, BSN, RN | Estela Dimes, BSN, RN, works at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. She is currently earning a master’s degree in nursing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is the mother of two special needs children, Nezzar and Ziyad Dimes. This article is dedicated to them. |
| Ethel M. Robertson, EdD, C-FNP, MSN, MA, and Shari D. Wherry, MSN, C-FNP | Ethel M. Robertson, EdD, C-FNP, MSN, MA, is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. Shari D. Wherry, MSN, C-FNP, is an instructor in the same program. |
| Fidel Lim, RN, MA | Fidel Lim, RN, MA, is a clinical instructor at New York University College of Nursing in New York City. |
| G.S. | G.S. is a recent recipient of a scholarship award from ExceptionalNurse.com, an online resource for nurses and nursing students with disabilities. |
| Gihan ElGindy, MSN, RN | Gihan ElGindy, MSN, RN, is an educator and independent consultant on health, nursing, cultural competence, education and business entrepreneurship issues. She is the executive director of the Transcultural Education Center (TEC) in McLean, Virginia. For more information about TEC, visit www.tecenter.org. |
| Gihan ElGindy, RN, MSN | Gihan ElGindy, MSN, RN, is an educator and independent consultant on health, nursing, cultural competence, education and business entrepreneurship issues. She is the executive director of the Transcultural Education Center (TEC) in McLean, Virginia. For more information about TEC, visit www.tecenter.org. |
| Heidi Russell Rafferty | Heidi Russell Rafferty is a free-lance writer in Fayetteville, N.C. |
| J. C. McNeil, MSN, APRN, BC | J. C. McNeil, MSN, APRN, BC, is a PhD student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Nursing in Memphis, and a 2002 Fellow of the American Nurses Association’s Ethnic Minority Fellowship Program. |
| Jacquelin Holland, RNC, CRNP | Jacquelin Holland, RNC, CRNP, is program director for the Diversity Enhancement Program (DEP) at The Ohio State University Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute in Columbus. She has 39 years of clinical and education experience in cancer care in the U.S. and in Africa. She can be reached at holland-4@medctr.osu.edu. |
| James J. Owens | James J. Owens is assistant professor of clinical management communication at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Center for Management Communication. |
| Jan Taylor Fox, RNC, MSN | Jan Taylor Fox, RNC, MSN, has taught psychiatric/mental health nursing as a clinical instructor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing for over 20 years. She has received seven teaching awards, has sponsored student groups since 1979 and continues to work on developing ways to bring out the potential of all students. |
| Jawel Lemons, RN, MS, FNP-C | Jawel Lemons, RN, MS, FNP-C, is associate chief nurse for medicine/surgery at the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dallas, TX. |
| Jean Ann Cantore | Jean Ann Cantore is editor of Texas Techsan magazine. |
| Jebra Turner | Jebra Turner is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon. |
| Jeffrey J. Kroll | Jeffrey J. Kroll is the principal at the Law Offices of Jeffrey J. Kroll in Chicago. He founded his firm with 17 years’ experience representing victims and their families, and he has achieved settlements and verdicts in a wide range of cases, from medical malpractice to product liability. For more information, visit www.kroll-lawfirm.com. |
| Jennifer Bobrow Burns | Jennifer Bobrow Burns is a career counselor and free-lance writer in Connecticut. She is the author of the book Career Opportunities in the Nonprofit Sector. |
| Jessica King | Jessica King is an assistant editor at Minority Nurse magazine. |
| Jessica Tomer | Jessica Tomer is an assistant editor at Minority Nurse magazine. |
| Jin-Chuan Chuang (Wanda) Wu, RN, MN, OCN | Jin-Chuan Chuang (Wanda) Wu, RN, MN, OCN, is an assistant professor in the Charity School of Nursing at Delgado Community College in New Orleans. Wanda has practiced oncology nursing for many years in both Taiwan and the United States. |
| Joane T. Moceri, PhD, RN | Joane T. Moceri, PhD, RN, is a lecturer in the nursing program at the University of Washington Tacoma. She is also a researcher with a particular interest in addressing issues of racism and bias as they pertain to nursing. |
| Judy Goforth Parker, PhD, RN | Judy Goforth Parker, PhD, RN, retired from her teaching position at East Central University’s Department of Nursing in summer 2009. She is now the administrator of the Chickasaw Nation Health System in Ada, Oklahoma. Visit her blog at www.goforthparker.com. |
| Judy Goforth Parker, RN, PhD and Lee Anne Nichols, RN, PhD | Judy Goforth Parker, RN, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Nursing at East Central University (Ada, Okla.) and a member of the Chickasaw tribe. Lee Anne Nichols, RN, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Tulsa School of Nursing and a member of the Cherokee tribe. |
| Judy Goforth Parker, RN, PhD, Martha Baker, RN, PhD and Lee Anne Nichols, RN, PhD | Judy Goforth Parker, RN, PhD, is a member of the Tribal Leaders Diabetes Committee and a professor of nursing at East Central University. She was recently elected for a fourth term as legislator for the Chickasaw Nation. Martha Baker, RN, PhD, is associate professor of nursing and director of the BSN program at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri. Her tribal affiliation is White River Cherokee. Lee Anne Nichols, RN, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Tulsa and a tribal member of the Cherokee Nation. |
| Julie A. Pearson, CRNA, MSN and Donna M. Jasinski, CRNA, DNSc | Julie A. Pearson, CRNA, MSN, is an assistant professor and assistant director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Donna M. Jasinski, CRNA, DNSc, is an assistant professor at Georgetown and director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program. |
| Julie Fuimano, MBA, BSN, RN | Julie Fuimano, MBA, BSN, RN is a coach and author of 101 Tips For Developing The Leader In You! Her passion is coaching clients to stop struggling and achieve more. For your free consultation, visit Julie at http://www.nurturingyoursuccess.com, write to her at Julie@nurturingyoursuccess.com or call her directly at (484) 530-5024. |
| Julie Fuimano, RN, MBA, BSN | Julie Fuimano, RN, MBA, BSN, is co-founder of Nurturing Your Success, Inc. (www.nurturingyoursuccess.com), a success coaching firm that advises health care professionals on career development, leadership development and financial issues. |
| Karen B. McCann, RN, MSN, CPNP, APN-C | Karen B. McCann, RN, MSN, CPNP, APN-C, a pediatric nurse practitioner, is the clinical educator for the Department of Pediatrics at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J. She also serves as township coordinator for the Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance Committee in Manchester Township, N.J. She was previously featured in the Minority Nurse article “Nurses with Disabilities: Another Minority Group.” |
| Karen Steib | Karen Steib is a free-lance writer based in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. |
| Katherine Abriam-Yago, RN, EdD | Katherine Abriam-Yago, RN, EdD, is an associate professor and the recruitment/retention coordinator at San José State University School of Nursing. |
| Kendell Andrus, GRNA, MN, Mike Fussell, GRNA, MN, Efrem Greely, GRNA, MN, Linda Nguyen, GRNA, MN, and Sedric Williams, GRNA, MN | Kendell Andrus, GRNA, MN, Mike Fussell, GRNA, MN, Efrem Greely, GRNA, MN, Linda Nguyen, GRNA, MN, and Sedric Williams, GRNA, MN, are 2009 graduates of the nurse anesthesia program at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) School of Nursing in New Orleans. Marjorie A. Geisz-Everson, CRNA, PhD(c), is an instructor in the LSUHSC nurse anesthesia program. |
| Kenny Thompson, BSN, RN and Daren Vertein, MSN, RN | Kenny Thompson, BSN, RN, works on a cardiovascular progressive care unit at Johnson City Medical Center in Johnson City, Tennessee. He hopes to begin graduates studies this fall. Daren Vertein, MSN, RN, is a professor at East Tennessee State University College of Nursing in Johnson City. He will complete his family nurse practitioner (FNP) studies in the spring of 2011. |
| Kimberly Bonvissuto | Kimberly Bonvissuto is a freelance writer based in Cleveland, Ohio. |
| Kondria Woods | Kondria Woods is a free-lance writer, copy editor and business consultant based in Greer, S.C. |
| Kristin Anderson, Ph.D. | |
| L. Grace Freeman, RN | L. Grace Freeman, RN, graduated from the University of South Dakota nursing program in May 2004. She plans to continue her education to become a diabetes educator. |
| L. Joyce Washington, PhD, ARNP, CNS | Dr. L. Joyce Washington, ARNP, CNS, an associate professor of nursing at Barry University School of Nursing (SON) in Miami Shores, Fla., is the former chairperson of the SON’s Faculty Affairs Search Subcommittee and current chairperson of the SON Faculty Affairs Committee. |
| LaToya D. Hines | LaToya D. Hines is a fifth-year pre-nursing student at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. This article was originally written as an assignment for her Women’s History course. |
| LDCR Ruth Kawano, MSN, RN | LCDR Ruth Kawano, MSN, RN, is an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and a nurse educator at the Gallup Indian Medical Center, an Indian Health Service facility in Gallup, N.M. |
| Lee Anne Nichols, RN, PhD and John Lowe, RN, PhD | Lee Anne Nichols, RN, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Tulsa School of Nursing. John Lowe, RN, PhD, is an assistant professor of nursing at the Florida International University School of Nursing in Miami. |
| Leigh Page | Leigh Page is a Chicago-based freelance writer specializing in health care topics. |
| Linda Childers | Linda Childers is a California-based freelance writer. |
| Linda Formicelli | Linda Formicelli has written for Women's Day, Wired, Family Circle and Business Start-Ups. She writes from her home in Southeast Massachusetts and can be reached at www.twowriters.net. |
| Linda Parry, BSN, RN | Linda Parry, BSN, RN, is a nursing instructor in the Practical Nursing Program at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce, Florida. |
| Lorraine Steefel | Lorraine Steefel, DNP, RN, CTN, is a professional writer and an adjunct assistant professor of nursing at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark, N.J.) and at Kean University (Union, N.J.). She is an honorary member of the PNAA New Jersey Chapter. |
| Lorrie R. Davis-Dick, MSN, RN, BC | Lorrie R. Davis-Dick, MSN, RN, BC, is a clinical assistant professor at North Carolina A&T State University School of Nursing in Greensboro, N.C. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International, the Honor Society of Nursing. |
| Louise Kaegi | Louise Kaegi is a Chicago-based free-lance writer specializing in health care, ethics and cultural competency. |
| Lowanda Dent, PhD, RN, CANP | Lowanda Dent, PhD, RN, CANP is an adjunct faculty member who teaches in the online family nurse practitioner program at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia. She would like to hear from other nurses who are interested in sharing their own experiences as students in online education programs. Contact her at lwdent@knology.net. |
| Lt. Colonel Beulah Nash-Teachey, RN, BSN | Lt. Colonel Beulah Nash-Teachey, RN, BSN, also holds a master’s degree in nursing. She serves in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and is a member of the Greater Washington (D.C.) chapter of the National Black Nurses Association. |
| Luis Clemens | Luis Clemens is a free-lance writer who specializes in covering the African American, Asian American and Latino communities. |
| Lynette Cox, RNC, MSN | Lynette Cox, RNC, MSN, graduated in May 2003 from the University of Hartford with an MSN degree in management. She is currently working as a charge nurse at Hebrew Home and Hospital in West Hartford, Connecticut. |
| Maggie Van Dyke | Maggie Van Dyke is a free-lance writer in the Chicago area. |
| Margarette Burnette | Margarette Burnette is a free-lance writer based in Acworth, Georgia. |
| Marilyn Hardy Bougere, MSN, RN, CNS | Marilyn Hardy Bougere, MSN, RN, CNS, is a nursing instructor at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. |
| Marlene McDowell | Marlene McDowell is the public relations manager for the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. For more information about nurse anesthesia, visit the AANA website at www.aana.com. |
| Mary Hollens | Mary Hollens is the director of development at Wayne State University in Detroit. |
| Melanie Long, BSN | Melanie Long earned her BSN degree from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M., in December 2001. She now [ADD INFO ABOUT WHAT SHE’S CURRENTLY DOING.] Ms. Long’s research mentor, Alexa Stuifbergen, RN, PhD, FAAN, director of The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing’s Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations, also contributed to this article. |
| Michael C. Harris | Michael C. Harris is a Chicago-based free-lance writer. |
| Michael L. Williams, RN, MSN, CCRN | Michael L. Williams, RN, MSN, CCRN, is the first male president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). This article is excerpted and adapted from his “President’s Note” column that appeared in the August 2001 issue of AACN News, the association’s monthly newspaper. |
| Michele Bitoun Blecher | Michele Bitoun Blecher is a free-lance writer living in Evanston, Ill. She is director of the Teaching Magazine Program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. |
| Migdalia Rivera Goba, EdD(c), MS, RN | Migdalia Rivera Goba, EdD(c), MS, RN, is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst School of Nursing. She is also the president and founder of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. |
| Miriam Ezenwa | Miriam Ezenwa graduated from the BSN program at Hunter College (New York, N.Y.) in May 2003. She is now pursuing graduate study in the accelerated BSN-to-PhD program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Misa Mi, MLIS, MA | Misa Mi, MLIS, MA, is a librarian who works in the medical library at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. She is a senior member of the Medical Library Association’s Academy of Health Information Professionals. |
| Mohammed Alghemini, MSN, RN, and Sharon A. Denham, DSN, RN | Mohammed Alghemini, MSN, RN, is a nursing tutor at Muscat Nursing Institute in Muscat, Oman. Sharon A. Denham, DSN, RN, is a professor at Ohio University School of Nursing in Athens, Ohio. |
| Molly Joss | Molly Joss is a free-lance writer, analyst and consultant who writes about career and job issues, among other topics of note. |
| Monique Blair, BSN, and Carol Eliadi, EdD, JD, APRN | Monique Blair, BSN, graduated in May 2009 from the baccalaureate nursing program at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the mother of a healthy and happy four-year-old boy, who was born prematurely at 32 weeks gestation. Carol Eliadi, EdD, JD, APRN, is assistant dean of nursing and associate professor of nursing at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. |
| Nadine L. Eads, MSN, FNP, and Dorothy L. Powell, RN, EdD, FAAN | Nadine L. Eads, MSN, FNP, is an assistant professor at Howard University Division of Nursing in Washington, D.C. Dorothy L. Powell, RN, EdD, FAAN, |
| Nancy J. Mellem | Nancy J. Mellem is a former contrubiting editor for Diversity: Allied Health Careers.
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| Nancy J. Mellem and Valerie Anderson | Nancy J. Mellem is a former contrubiting editor and Valerie Anderson is a former managing editor of Diversity: Allied Health Careers. |
| Norma Kiser-Larson, PhD, RN | Norma Kiser-Larson, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor of nursing at North Dakota State University in Fargo. She serves as a parish nurse in her local congregation and has coordinated two medical mission trips to Nicaragua. |
| Nurses, Nursing Students and Educators | Carolyn Ahl, Amber Bumgardner, Heather Byelick, Melissa Krieder, Joy Nevens, Antonia Schiller, Katrina Sorensen and Laura Steiger are students at the University of Washington School of Nursing in Seattle. Sherry Foutch, MN, ARNP, is a nurse practitioner at the Teen Health Center clinic at Cleveland High School in Seattle. Janette Wong, BA, and Kelly Pornour, MA, are health education teachers at Cleveland High School. |
| Pam Chwedyk | Pam Chwedyk is senior editor and editorial manager of Minority Nurse. |
| Pamela Hyman, MSN, RN | Pamela Hyman, MSN, RN, is a graduate student at the University of Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut. |
| Pamela Palmer, EdD | Dr. Pamela Palmer is a free-lance writer who specializes in career, business and information technology topics. |
| Patricia A. Vint, EdD, SDL | Patricia A. Vint, EdD, SDL, is director of the Instruction Center at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan. |
| Paul C. Bowers | Paul C. Bowers is the vice president for fund development at Downey Regional Medical Center in Downey, California. |
| Paula Lipp | Paula Lipp is a former editorial manager of Minority Nurse. |
| Peter J. Goodman | Peter J. Goodman is president and CEO of MyJobCoach, Inc. (www.myjobcoach.com), a national career development and coaching firm. He is the author of Win-Win Career Negotiations: Proven Strategies for Getting What You Want from Your Employer. |
| Phoebe Pollitt, PhD, RN,C | Phoebe Pollitt, PhD, RN,C, practiced public health nursing for more than 20 years while teaching part time. She is now a full-time assistant professor of nursing at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. |
| Prof. Alnisa K. Shabazz, RN, MS | Prof. Alnisa K. Shabazz, RN, MS and her sister, Roslyn McConico Fisher, RN, BSN, Chief Clinical Officer for Nursing Sisters Home Care in Haupauge, New York. |
| René Jackson, RN, BSN | René Jackson, RN, BSN, is a special procedures nurse at Charlotte Regional Medical Center (Punta Gorda, Fla.) and a free-lance health care writer. |
| Rev. Steven K. Wheeler, BSN, RN | Rev. Steven K. Wheeler, BSN, RN, is the pastor of Impact Christian Ministries in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a student in the master’s degree program at Mount Carmel College of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio.
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| Rev. Steven K. Wheeler, MSN, RN | Rev. Steven K. Wheeler, MSN, RN, is a professor of pharmacology at RETS College in Centerville, Ohio. |
| Robbie Taylor-Simon, RN, MSN, FNP-C | Robbie Taylor-Simon, RN, MSN, FNP-C, graduated in December 2002 from the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing in Houston. She passed her FNP boards in May and now practices in a home health care program for geriatric patients. |
| Robin R. Roach, MPH, EdD, RD | |
| Rose A. Hazlett | Rose A. Hazlett is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, with over 30 years of combined military experience. She is also a nursing faculty member at El Centro College and a graduate research assistant in Texas Woman’s University’s Pioneering Nursing’s Future: Excellence through Diversity program. |
| Roseanne R. Bensley | Roseanne R. Bensley is the assistant director of Placement and Career Services at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, N.M. |
| Ruth Carol | Ruth Carol is a Wilmette, Ill.-based freelance writer specializing in health care issues. |
| Sally Parker | Sally Parker is a free-lance writer living in Rochester, N.Y. |
| Samuel C. Clemmons, RN | Samuel C. Clemmons, RN, is the diversity coordinator for Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, N.C. |
| Sandra Bassendowski, EdD, RN, Pammla Petrucka, PhD, RN, Bev McBeth, MEd, RN, and Marlene Smadu, EdD, RN | Sandra Bassendowski, EdD, RN, and Pammla Petrucka, PhD, RN, are assistant professors at the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan. Bev McBeth, MEd, RN, is an advisor to the Native Access Program to Nursing (NAPN) at the Saskatchewan |
| Sandra Bassendowski, R.N., Ed.D., and Pammla Petrucka, R.N., Ph.D. | Both Sandra Bassendowski, R.N., Ed.D., and Pammla Petrucka, R.N., Ph.D., serve as associate professors at the University of Saskatchewan College of Nursing in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of Ms. Bev McBeth, Aboriginal Nursing Advisor (Regina, SK), NAPN/M, in the development of this article. |
| Sandra P. Ganon, RNC | Sandra P. Ganon, RNC, is a certified neonatal intensive care nurse at Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill in Kansas City, Missouri. |
| Scott Williams | Scott Williams is a freelance writer based in Corpus Christi, Texas. |
| Sharon Palmer, RD | Sharon Palmer is a registered dietitian with a 16-year career in health care. She is now a free-lance writer residing in Southern California. |
| Sherlan Thomas, F.N.P., M.S.N., M.P.H., D.N.P.-C | Sherlan Thomas, F.N.P., M.S.N., M.P.H., D.N.P.-C, works full time as a nurse practitioner at the Montefiore Medical Center for Positive Living/Infectious Diseases Clinic in the Bronx, New York. Summer of 2010 will see her in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, where she will again be working with HIV-infected patients and the health care professionals who treat them. |
| Shonta D. Collins, BSN, RN, MPA | Shonta D. Collins, BSN, RN, MPA, graduated in December 2007 from the BSN program at LaSalle University School of Nursing and Health Sciences in Philadelphia. She is a critical care nurse at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and the founder of the nonprofit organization Explorers Sans Frontières (www.ExplorersSF.org). |
| Silvia Foti | Silvia Foti of Chicago runs her own free-lance writing company, Lotus Ink. Visit her at www.silviafoti.com |
| Sonya Stinson | Sonya Stinson is a freelance writer based in New Orleans. |
| Spencer Miller, RN | Spencer Miller, RN, is an emergency room nurse who has worked at various hospitals in Florida, Georgia and California. He now lives in San Jose, Calif., with his partner, Tao. Visit his blog at www.emergencydpt.com. |
| Sujayalakshmi Devarayasamudram, MSN, RN, MPhil | Sujayalakshmi Devarayasamudram, MSN, RN, MPhil, is a clinical associate professor of nursing at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina. She can be contacted at sujayalakshmi_d@yahoo.com. |
| Susan O’Brien, EdD, RN, Louise Riley, MS, RN, BC, and Jovita Solomon-Duarte, MSN, RN, CCRN | Susan O’Brien, EdD, RN, is dean of the Thomas Edison State College School of Nursing and the principal writer of HRSA Grant # DIIHP05199. Louise Riley, MS, RN, BC, is the School of Nursing’s assistant dean for distance learning and co-writer of the HRSA grant. Jovita Solomon-Duarte MSN, RN, CCRN, is the diversity coordinator for the School of Nursing. |
| Susan Rita Ruel, Ph.D. | Susan Rita Ruel, Ph.D., VNSNY’s HR Communications Manager since 2005, previously worked on the global communications team at McKinsey and Company. Prior to that, she taught English/journalism at the University of Delaware and served as a correspondent in Shanghai and San Francisco and as an editor on the international desks at the AP and UPI. |
| Susan Wessling | Susan Wessling is a professional journalist who lives in Central Massachusetts. |
| Tammy Basile | Tammy Basile is the director of marketing and community relations at LifeSource Blood Services in the Chicago area. |
| Terah Shelton | Terah Shelton is a freelance writer based in the Atlanta area. Visit her Web site at www.terahs.com. |
| Tim Clancy | Tim Clancy is the former publisher of Diversity: Allied Health Careers and Minority Nurse and has more than 20 years of career development writing and publishing experience. |
| Toniann King, RN, BA | Toniann King is a free-lance writer living in New Jersey. She has a BA in journalism and an RN diploma. |
| Tony and Alison Martinez | Tony and Alison Martinez are writers based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tony was an educator, Alison a research librarian. |
| Tony P. Martinez and Alison P. Martinez | Tony and Alison Martinez are writers based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tony is a former educator; Alison was a research librarian. |
| Valerie Anderson | Valerie Anderson is a former senior editor for Diversity: Allied Health Careers. |
| Valerie Anderson and Maureen Vaught | Valerie Anderson and Maureen Vaught are editors at Minority Nurse magazine. |
| Venessa Lee, RN, MA, CRNAC, and Theresa Harris, RNC | Venessa Lee, RN, MA, CRNAC, is a clinical manager at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. She has 16 years of management experience. Theresa Harris, RNC, is an IV therapist at Memorial Hermann Hospital, with over 13 years of management experience. |
| Vicki Chung | Vicki Chung is a former associate editor of Minority Nurse. |
| Vicky Cerino | Vicky Cerino is a senior media specialist for the Public Affairs Department at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. |
| Wallena Gould, CRNA, MSN | Wallena Gould, C.R.N.A., M.S.N., is the founder and chair of the Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program (www. diversitycrna.org) and a member of Minority Nurse’s editorial advisory board. She is also a doctoral candidate studying education at Wilmington University. Wallena can be contacted at crna4u@ comcast.net. To learn more about the CRNA admission process, rigors of the program, clinicals, didactic courses, Board preparation, and doctoral opportunities, nurses can attend the next Diversity Information Session, to be held on October 23, 2010, at the Duke University of School of Nursing. Register online at www.diversitycrna.org. |
| Walter Brooks | Walter Brooks is a media specialist in the Public Affairs Department at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. |
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