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Article
2021
Covid-19, Pregnancy, and Vaccinations.
2020
African-Americans Have a Higher Propensity for Death from COVID-19: Rationale and Causation.
2020
What Nurses Should Know About COVID-19.
2015
Early Breast Cancer Screening for African- American Women: A Clarion Call to Arms
2014
Exhaustion, immuno-inflammation, and pathogen burden after cardiac surgery: An exploratory study
Full Text via DOI:
10.1177/1474515113482805
Web of Science:
000335686100003
2013
Impact of a nurse-directed, coordinated school health program to enhance physical activity behaviors and reduce body mass index among minority children: A parallel-group, randomized control trial
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES
. 50:727-737.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2012.09.004
Web of Science:
000319491100003
2013
Clinical and socio-demographic predictors of postoperative vital exhaustion in patients after cardiac surgery
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HEART & LUNG
. 42:98-104.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1016/j.hrtlng.2013.01.002
Web of Science:
000316035900005
2012
Improving healthy dietary behaviors, nutrition knowledge, and self-efficacy among underserved school children with parent and community involvement
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CHILDHOOD OBESITY
. 8:347-356.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1089/chi.2012.0045
2011
A Guide to Developing a Culturally Competent Organization
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JOURNAL OF TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
. 22:7-14.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1177/1043659610387147
2010
Chapter 3: Theoretical Basis for Transcultural Care
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JOURNAL OF TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
. 21.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1177/1043659610374321
2010
Chapter 7: Cultural Health Assessment
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JOURNAL OF TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
. 21.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1177/1043659610377208
2010
Understanding race and ethnicity to facilitate culturally competent care.
2010
California's young Hispanic children with asthma: Disparities in health care access and utilization of health care services
Full Text via DOI:
10.1891/1540-4153.8.3.154
2008
Comparison of Latina and non-Latina white women's beliefs about communicating genetic cancer risk to relatives
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JOURNAL OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION
. 13:465-479.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/10810730802198920
2008
Examining today's complex issues: from understanding racism to eliminating health disparities.
2008
Opportunity cost: the impact of contextual risk factors on the cardiovascular health of low-income rural southern African-American women.
2008
Understanding ethnopharmacolgy: implications for cultural relativism.
2008
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Lancaster Carnegie
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NURSING RESEARCH
. 57:133-134.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/01.nnr.0000319490.36875.2b
2008
Church and Spirituality in the Lives of the African American Community
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JOURNAL OF TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
. 19:375-383.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1177/1043659608322502
2007
Comparison of Latina and Non‐Latina White Women's Beliefs About Communicating Genetic Cancer Risk to Relatives
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NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES
. 9:236-236.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/j.1442-2018.2007.00344.x
2007
Antibody response to hepatitis B vaccination in urban, homeless adults.
2007
The relationships among stress, coping, social support, and weight class in premenopausal African American women at risk for coronary heart disease
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/01.JCN.0000278964.05748.d8
2007
Understanding cultural language to enhance cultural competence
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NURSING OUTLOOK
. 55:212-214.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1016/j.outlook.2007.05.004
2007
American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel Report: Developing Cultural Competence to Eliminate Health Disparities in Ethnic Minorities and Other Vulnerable Populations
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JOURNAL OF TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
. 18:95-102.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1177/1043659606298618
2007
Selection of family members for communication of cancer risk and barriers to this communication before and after genetic cancer risk assessment
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GENETICS IN MEDICINE
. 9:275-282.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/GIM.0b013e31804ec075
2006
Watch that waistline
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/01244666-200607000-00009
2006
Problems and associated feelings experienced by family caregivers of stroke survivors the second and third month postdischarge
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TOPICS IN STROKE REHABILITATION
. 13:66-74.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1310/6UL6-5X89-B05M-36TH
2006
Social support, social problem-solving abilities, and adjustment of family caregivers of stroke survivors
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ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
. 87:343-350.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1016/j.apmr.2005.09.019
2006
African-American women, metabolic syndrome, and national cholesterol education program criteria: a pilot study.
2005
African American women, metabolic syndrome, and National Cholesterol Education Program criteria: A pilot study
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NURSING RESEARCH
. 54:339-346.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00006199-200509000-00008
2005
Genetic predictors of coronary heart disease risk factors in premenopausal African-American women
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ETHNICITY & DISEASE
. 15:221-232.
2005
Opportunity cost: The impact of contextual risk factors on the cardiovascular health of low‐income rural southern african american women
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00005082-200509000-00005
2004
Caregiving problems and feelings experienced by family caregivers of stroke survivors the first month after discharge
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/01.mrr.0000127639.47494.e3
2004
Family Caregivers of Stroke Survivors: Characteristics of Caregivers at Risk for Depression
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REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY
. 49:172-179.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1037/0090-5550.49.2.172
2004
Dysmetabolic syndrom: Reducing cardiovascular risk
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00006205-200410000-00004
2004
Personal characteristics, health status, physical activity, and quality of life in cardiac rehabilitation participants
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES
. 41:173-181.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1016/S0020-7489(03)00127-5
2004
Sociodemographic, physical and psychosocial factors associated with depressive behaviour in family caregivers of stroke survivors in the acute care phase
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BRAIN INJURY
. 18:797-809.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/02699050410001671766
2003
Human genetics: can we really eliminate health disparities.
2002
Telephone intervention with family caregivers of stroke survivors after rehabilitation
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STROKE
. 33:2060-2065.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1161/01.STR.0000020711.38824.E3
2002
Culturally competent care: Emphasis on understanding the people of Afghanistan, Afghanistan Americans, and Islamic culture and religion
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INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW
. 49:79-86.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1046/j.1466-7657.2002.00118.x
2002
"Culture matters for the patient in pain".
2002
The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model
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JOURNAL OF TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
. 13:185-188.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1177/10459602013003004
2001
Teaching culture within the nursing curriculum using the Giger-Davidhizar model of transcultural nursing assessment
2001
Social problem-solving abilities, social support, and adjustment among family caregivers of individuals with a stroke
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REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY
. 46:44-57.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1037/0090-5550.46.1.44
2001
Social problem-solving telephone partnerships with family caregivers of persons with stroke
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00004356-200109000-00003
2000
Cultural competency matters
Full Text via DOI:
10.1108/13660750010378625
2000
Fat distribution and cardiovascular disease risk in African-American women.
2000
Finding meaning in illness. Can nurses help?
2000
Sociodemographic, physical, and psychosocial characteristics of depressed and non-depressed family caregivers of stroke survivors
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BRAIN INJURY
. 14:1089-1100.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/02699050050203586
1999
FAT DISTRIBUTION AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN
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MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE
. 31:s66.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00005768-199905001-00159
1999
Blending a diverse health care team into a rose garden.
1999
Empowerment: a tool for black nursing faculty.
1999
Letting your face do your talking.
1999
Managing diversity in the health care workplace.
1999
Will You Fit if You Move to a Job in Another Culture?
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00126450-199912000-00004
1998
CULTURAL COMMENTARY
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING
. 98:19.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00000446-199811000-00024
1998
Cultural Commentary
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING
. 98:19.
Full Text via DOI:
10.2307/3471676
1998
A model to enhance culturally competent care.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/00185869809596495
1998
A patient classification system for the chronic psychiatric patient.
1998
Educating the culturally diverse healthcare student.
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NURSE EDUCATOR
. 23:38-42.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00006223-199803000-00016
1998
Maximizing the Human Resource Asset
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00126450-199806000-00007
1998
Nursing clients of Greek ethnicity at home.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00004045-199809000-00009
1998
Patients' use of denial: coping with the unacceptable.
Full Text via DOI:
10.7748/ns.12.43.44.s54
1998
Recognizing Abuse in Culturally Diverse Clients
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00126450-199812000-00004
1998
Time-Bound Madness
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00126450-199812000-00006
1998
Transcultural patient assessment: a method of advancing dental care.
1998
Use of Giger and Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model by Health Professions
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INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW
. 45:119-122.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1046/j.1466-7657.45.no.4issue340.6.x
1997
Prize your praise
Full Text via DOI:
10.7748/nm.4.6.10.s17
1997
When touch is not the best approach
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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
. 6:203-206.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-2702.1997.00085.x
1997
Cultural differences in pain management.
1997
SCHOLARLY PAPER
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING PRACTICE
. 3:10-14.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/j.1440-172x.1997.00010.pp.x
1997
Health promotion among ethnic minorities: the importance of cultural phenomena.
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REHABILITATION NURSING
. 22:303-310.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1002/j.2048-7940.1997.tb02123.x
1997
Managing a multicultural radiology staff.
1997
Model for cultural diversity in the radiology department.
1997
The interview that wins the job
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING PRACTICE
. 3:10-14.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/j.1440-172X.1997.tb00064.x
1997
When change is a must.
1997
When nurse managers must downsize.
1997
When your employee forgets who the boss is.
1996
Recognizing abuse
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INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW
. 43:145-150.
1996
When the operating room has a multicultural team.
1996
Power nap rejuvenates body, mind.
1995
Collaborating without caving in.
1995
Building a nursing career.
1995
Ageing in America.
Full Text via DOI:
10.7748/eldc.7.2.36.s16
1995
Humor-care for the caregiver.
1995
Delegating to a transcultural team
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00006247-199508000-00013
1995
Taking the dread out of annual performance evaluations.
1995
The manipulative manager: interventions for the nurse executive--Part 2.
1994
The manipulative manager: a human resources challenge--Part 1.
1994
Understanding monochronic and polychronic individuals in the workplace.
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CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST
. 8:334-322.
1994
You have power, too!
1994
Changing nursing students' attitudes: An exploratory study
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/00185868.1994.9948492
1994
Strategies for designing culturally relevant client education materials.
1994
When your patient is silent
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JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
. 20:703-706.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-2648.1994.20040703.x
1993
Supporting families who wait.
1993
Strategies for building a representative nursing faculty.
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N&HC-PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNITY
. 14:144-150.
1993
A program for water-intoxicated patients at a state hospital.
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CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST
. 7:55-61.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00002800-199303000-00004
1992
Black American folk medicine health care beliefs: implication for nursing plans of care.
1992
Manipulation: Making the best of it
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00006247-199203000-00012
1991
When the nurse faces separation and loss.
1991
Biological variations in the black patient.
1990
Culture and space.
1990
Developing communication skills for use with Black patients.
1990
Contextual care: religious considerations for culturally appropriate nursing care.
1990
Nursing theory. Nightingale & Roy--a comparison of nursing models.
1990
So you've been offered a management position.
1990
Conceptual and theoretical approaches to patient care: associate versus baccalaureate degree prepared nurses
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JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
. 15:1009-1015.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2648.1990.tb01980.x
1990
Narrowing the gap between education and service.
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING
. 90:129.
Full Text via DOI:
10.2307/3463989
1990
Transcultural nursing assessment: a method for advancing nursing practice.
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INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW
. 37:199-202.
1990
When subordinates go over your head: The manipulative employee
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JOURNAL OF NURSING ADMINISTRATION
. 20:29-34.
1988
Managerial touch.
1987
Managerial Stroking. Motivating Employees
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AORN JOURNAL
. 46:492-496.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1016/S0001-2092(07)66460-6
1987
Strategic planning: Implications for nursing practice and education
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/00185868.1987.10543604
Conference
2016
SOLUBLE CD14 AND INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH EXHAUSTION AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY
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PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE
. A130-A130.
Web of Science:
000373949800421
1997
Genes within and flanking the major histocompatibility region are risk factors for diabetes, insulin resistance, hypertension, and microalbuminuria in African-American women
.
TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS
. 3710-3712.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1016/S0041-1345(97)01079-8
Editorial Material
2022
United States Supreme Court v. Women: The Reversal Effect of Roe.
. vi-viii.
2021
The Journal of the National Black Nurses Association: COVID-19 and the Mental Health Status of African-Americans.
. vi-viii.
2021
The Journal of the National Black Nurses Association: From There to Here.
. vi-viii.
2020
Racism: What It Is, and What It Is Not.
. vi-viii.
2019
Fostering Diversity and Inclusivity Among African-American Nursing Students in U.S. Schools of Nursing: Changing the Dynamics.
. vi-viii.
2019
Understanding the New Hypertension Guidelines When Interacting with Black Patients.
. vi-viii.
2018
Care of the Frail Elderly, the Mentally Ill, and the Disabled in Nursing Homes: A Clarion Call to Arms.
. vi-viii.
2018
We Ain't No Ways Tired: We Demand a Ban on the AR-15 Rifle Now.
. vi-viii.
2017
Bump-Fire Stocks: Finding a Way to Outlaw Their Usage.
. vi-viii.
2017
Diabetes: A Pre-Existing Condition at a Crossroad.
. vi-viii.
2016
Is There a Contingent Relationship Between Serious Mental Illness and Increased Gun Violence?
. vi-viii.
2016
Understanding the Second Amendment: The Right to Keep and Bear Assault Weapons
. vi-viii.
2015
Family Presence in Adult Intensive Care Units
. vii-viii.
2013
Addressing the racial, ethnic and gender inequities in the childhood obesity crisis: a call to action.
. vii-viii.
2012
The nation's effort to reduce racial and ethnic disparities among children with asthma: it takes a village.
. vii-viii.
2011
African-Americans and strokes: minutes and hours make the difference.
. vii-viii.
2011
How African-Americans fare with susceptibility to disease: forty years after the founding of the NBNA.
. vii-viii.
2010
Where have all my sisters and brothers gone? A look at the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African-Americans.
. vii-viii.
2009
Feelings of powerlessness and the elderly.
. vii-viii.
2009
Understanding the importance of biospecimen collection to treat and diagnose cancer among African-Americans.
. vii-viii.
2007
The nurse's role in discouraging clinical inertia in diabetes management: optimizing cardiovascular health among African-Americans.
. vii-viii.
2007
Understanding the pandemic and epidemic nature of cardiovacular disease: a clarion call to arms.
. vii-viii.
2006
Re-defining the term health disparities.
. vii-viii.
2006
The importance of the African-American church and spirituality in the lives of the African-American community.
. vii-viii.
2005
Diabetes: a major health disparity for pre-menopausal African-American women.
. vii-viii.
2005
HIV/AIDS: an African-American epidemic.
. vii-viii.
2004
Understanding genetics: the relationship of disease and genetic predisposition in African-Americans.
. vii-viii.
2003
HIV/AIDS among African-Americans: how far have we come in eradicating a known killer?
. vii-viii.
2001
Ending health disparities in African-American men: a clarion call to arms.
. vii-viii.
2000
And still we rise: meeting the challenges of ending health disparities among African-Americans.
. vii-viii.
2000
Developing culturally competent care techniques to assist African-Americans to survive in the 21st century.
. vii-viii.
Note
1993
RN to BSN: Avoiding the pitfalls
. 48-56.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00126450-199309000-00009
Other Scholarly Work
2020
Why African-Americans are Hesitant to Take the Newly Proposed COVID-19 Vaccines: Tuskegee Revisited.
. vi-viii.
2007
Erratum: Selection of family members for communication of cancer risk and barriers to this communication before and after genetic cancer risk assessment (Genetics in Medicine (2007) 9:5 (275-282))
.
GENETICS IN MEDICINE
. 483.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/01.gim.0000280442.52508.77
2007
Activity of the beta-myosin heavy chain antisense promoter responds to diabetes and hypothyroidism.
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
. H3065-H3071.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1152/ajpheart.01224.2006
Review
2020
Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine for the Treatment of COVID-19: Review and Appraisal of Current Evidence.
. 1-14.
2017
The World Health Organization - Community Empowerment Model in Addressing Food Insecurity in Low-Income African-American Women: A Review of the Literature.
. 43-49.
2009
Strategies for implementing and sustaining therapeutic lifestyle changes as part of hypertension management in African Americans
. 147-159.
Full Text via DOI:
10.3810/pgm.2009.05.2015
2007
Eliminating health disparities: Understanding this important phenomenon
. 221-233.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/01.HCM.0000285013.88278.1e
2007
Promoting culturally appropriate interventions among vulnerable populations.
. 293-316.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1891/0739-6686.25.1.293
2007
The mystery of altruism and transcultural nursing
. 64-67.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1097/00126450-200701000-00008
2006
An overview and update on the metabolic syndrome: implications for identifying cardiometabolic risk among African-American women.
. 47-62.
2006
Using the Giger-Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model (GDTAM) in providing patient care.
. 20-27.
2006
Multi-cultural and multi-ethnic considerations and advanced directives: developing cultural competency.
. 3-9.
2005
What if your nursing student is from an Asian culture?
. 5-11.
2004
A review of the literature on care of clients in pain who are culturally diverse
.
INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW
. 47-55.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/j.1466-7657.2003.00208.x
2004
Structural and racial barriers to health care.
. 39-58.
2003
Eliminating structural and racial barriers: a plausible solution to eliminating health disparities.
. 57-65.
2002
Breakthrough in psychiatric care: pharmacological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders with implications for nursing care.
. 12-21.
2002
Duplicate publication Part 1. Consideration of the issues.
. 1-4.
2000
Breakthrough in psychiatric care. Pharmacological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders with implications for nursing care.
. 23-2831.
1999
Helping others when you are hurting: strategies for delivering quality care while dealing with personal bereavement.
. 71-77.
1998
Death, dying and grief in a transcultural context: application of the Giger and Davidhizar assessment model.
. 33-56.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/0742-969x.1998.11882906
1998
Recognizing the child with obsessive defiant disorder.
. 15-20.
1998
When your client in the surgical suite is Mexican American.
. 29-35.
1998
When your patient uses denial.
. 10-14.
1997
When touch is not the best approach.
.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
. 203-206.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2702.1997.tb00305.x
1997
Canadian transcultural nursing: applying the Giger and Davidhizar model.
. 26-31.
1997
Cultural implications for nursing care of the Amish.
. 118-128.
1997
Reflections on the elderly African American in health care.
. 88-96.
1996
Haitian Americans: Implications for nursing care
. 249-260.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1207/s15327655jchn1304_4
1995
The management of memory deficits in the elderly: the nurses' role
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JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
. 201-207.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2834.1995.tb00077.x
Research
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Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy in Pregnant African American Women
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Hugoton Foundation
2022 - 2024
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