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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Dr. Selena Gilles

Minority Nurse

My mom grew up in a very disadvantaged neighborhood. I didn’t grow up in the best neighborhoods. As a latchkey kid who grew up in the NYC public schools, I knew I had to make it out of areas where most lack the resources to succeed. You did not see many working in the hospital at the time.

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Nurse Residencies: Norm or Exception?

Minority Nurse

Meanwhile, their less fortunate new grad colleagues take positions where they may be subject to extremely poor (or veritably nonexistent) precepting and essentially set up to sink or swim. Back then, a nurse would attend a nursing school run by a particular hospital. Are Universal Residencies Realistic?

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

Relias

Not long ago, city bystanders would erupt in applause during shift changes as healthcare providers exited and entered hospitals. Hospital systems may be taking employees for granted when they launch major marketing and public outreach programs or initiate billion-dollar renovations during a staffing crisis. Misplaced pay allocation.