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October 2006 Edition
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Nursing Research Targets Underserved Korean American Communities | BALTIMORE, Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two unique community-based research initiatives will provide health awareness and interventions to underserved Korean Americans at risk for diabetes and high blood pressure.
Armed with grants totaling nearly $4 million from the National Institutes of Health and working in partnership with the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) and the Korean Resource Center in Howard County, MD, nurse researcher Miyong Kim, RN, PhD, FAAN, will employ community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods to address and surmount the health care barriers facing many ethnic minority populations today.
In a $3.5 million study funded by the National Health, Lung, and Blood Institute, Kim will explore health literacy interventions for Korean Americans with high blood pressure (HBP) .....Full Story
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On Sept. 15, the California Board of Registered Nursing voted for the passing of the application for the American University of Health Sciences (AUHS) to open a pre-licensure Bachelor of Science degree nursing program, being the first private for profit minority-owned school of nursing in the history of California.
The AUHS School of nursing will open in Jan. 2007, starting with only 24 students. It will only be open to those that have taken the pre-requisites to obtain a nursing degree.
The program was created to operate at a fast pace, allowing students fresh out of high school to obtain a bachelor’s degree in nursing in three years. The curriculum is focused on evidence based practice and nursing research as the beginning steps toward developing much needed scholarly nurses.
Located in Bixby Knolls, Calif., AUHS, formally called the American Institute of Health Sciences, began in 1994 and was founded by Kim Dang and Rev. Gregory A ..... Full Story
| ANN ARBOR, Mich.—People who have experienced racial discrimination report greater difficulty in achieving their goals, greater personal discomfort, and the perception that they aren't getting the best health care, according to a new study by the American Public Health Association.
Blacks and Latinos who reported experiencing discrimination were more likely to score lower on an assessment of their mental health, even after controlling for age, gender, education employment and health insurance.
"The bottom line is that racial discrimination is a risk factor for mental health, and by extension, physical health," said Gilbert Gee of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, who co-authored the study with colleagues at the University of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition. The findings were to be announced Thursday (Sept ..... Full Story
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| NCEMNA Congratulates Dr. Norma Martinez Rogers on her induction into the prestigious Academy of American Nurses. This honor is bestowed on a select few top nurses every year. Dr. Martinez Rogers has several honors to her credit. It's no wonder NCEMNA chose her to be a part of its list of mentors, "Dr. Rogers developed the Juntos Podemos program for the School of Nursing in order to address the problem of retention, especially among educationally disadvantaged students". Also "On October 31, 2004, the San Antonio Express News highlighted Dr. Rogers’ clinical service to the local community .....Full Story
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Washington, DC – A policy analysis released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (GW) affirms that it is legal to collect and report health quality data by patient race and ethnicity, and calls for government guidelines to further encourage and shape the practice. The analysis underscores that collecting race and ethnicity data about patients – when conducted as part of a program to improve health care quality – does not violate federal or state laws or increase the risk of race-based malpractice claims.
Funded by RWJF and conducted by a team of GW researchers, the analysis comes at a time when an increasing number of health care providers are collecting race and ethnicity data to ensure that quality care is provided to all patients, while others question the legality of doing this and have concerns about possible liability exposure created by the collection and use of such data .....Full Story
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NCEMNA is proud to feature Norma G. Cuellar, DSN, RN Assistant Professor of Nursing at University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Her forum entitled "Research in Alternative Medical Systems: Indications for Ethnically Diverse Populations" promises to be quite informative. Dr. Cuellar has a series of interesting podcasts about her awesome work with Katrina victims.
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