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Minority Entrepreneur Offers 366 Days of Caregivers’ Comfort

America’s baby boomers are aging at a rapid rate and living up to 15 years longer than their parents’ generation. This rise in the elderly population is creating a huge need for more nurses to provide...

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In the Field: Hospice Team Targets Manhattan’s Chinatown

Together, the New York City metropolitan area's Chinatowns constitute the heaviest concentration of Chinese outside Asia. The oldest and largest is the 24-block Chinatown neighborhood in Manhattan,...

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Completing the Circle

The great circle of life: It’s the lesson that Simba, the young lion cub in Walt Disney Pictures’ The Lion King, learns as his story unfolds. When Simba loses his father, his view of life changes and...

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Death and Dying Across Cultures

Gihan ElGindy, RN, MSNEditor’s Note: Meet Minority Nurse’s cultural competence expert: Gihan ElGindy, RN, MSN, an internationally recognized authority on cross-cultural issues in nursing. Her advice...

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Till Death Do Us Part

As a Chinese American patient neared death in a nursing home, her family members wanted to follow their Buddhist tradition of gathering around their loved one to chant for 12 hours before and four...

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Making Their Wishes Known

As a registered nurse and lawyer with training in medical bioethics, Gloria Ramsey, JD, BSN, RN, knew a lot about end-of-life planning. Yet as her mother lay dying in a hospital after suffering a...

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