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An Interview – Inspiring Message
Learn more about Transcultural Nursing and its relationship to health care for diverse populations http://nursingnoteslive.com/2017/08/transcultural-nursing-awareness-beth-lincoln/
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Further Reflections From Common Ground: Cultural Awareness in Healthcare
Napa Valley, September 2017 — Long-time Napa Valley nurse practitioner Beth Lincoln has published her second book, Further Reflections from Common Ground: Cultural Awareness in Healthcare. With narratives by Cody Gillette Kirkham, the book’s 351 pages cover a very wide range of issues concerning cultural …
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We Can Make a Difference – Culture & Care
“What do you think made you sick?” I inquired of my Mexican-American patient. She obviously displayed symptoms of bronchitis. Her response – “I opened the window too fast and the wind got inside of me!” This is a comment I’ve received from many of my …
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Just when you think . . .
Just when you think you “know everything,” someone comes along and says “did you know that . . .” This happened while presenting a seminar. I was given a newspaper article about a young Hmong women living in Wisconsin. Her family history . . . …
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Image . . . Compassion . . . Care
An inspiring video from HCA Healthcare ~ seeing it through the eyes of the other will move you to compassionate caring.
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It’s Time to Talk . . . Suicide in Young Adults
I teach Transcultural Nursing. The concluding “final exam” for these nursing students was a group project/presentation. They selected an ethnic group, identified a health issue, and developed a culturally competent educational tool that addressed the issue within the context of cultural beliefs, values & health …
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Disparities in birth outcomes . . . Prenatal care may not be enough
In the documentary Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making us Sick, produced by California Newsreel, Episode 3 When the Bough Breaks looks at possible causes of racial/ethnic disparities found in infant mortality (click excerpt below). Dr. Michael Lu, OB-GYN at the Geffen School of Medicine UCLA, …
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Immigrants Healthier than the Wealthiest?
In Episode Three: Becoming American (see video clip below) a startling fact emerges that recent Mexican immigrants have better health that most Americans! How can that be??? It is thought that immigrants are on the low end of the socioeconomic ladder, live in substandard housing, …
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Health is More than Health Care
According to the Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Program (2008), the United States ranks 34th in the world for life expectancy (we ranked 29th in 2004). People in Demark, Chile, Cuba, Korea, Italy and Andorra live longer. United States spends $7720 per …
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