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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Aneesah Coates

Minority Nurse

Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. As a nurse, I have worked in an acute care setting caring for lung transplant patients.

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Don’t Call Us Heroes: Nursing Is a Calling — and a Profession

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Strategies include: Financial compensation for mentoring or precepting new nurses. Tellingly, Scrubsmag.com reported that hospitals that have invested in burnout reduction programs spend 36% less on recruitment. Mandated patient-to-staff ratios. Equitable workloads. Educational opportunities with reimbursement. Final thoughts.