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...
View ArticleIn 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,...
View ArticleCompleting 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...
View ArticleDeath 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...
View ArticleTill 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...
View ArticleMaking 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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