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HHS Updates Standards for Culturally, Linguistically Appropriate Care
from the AHA Institute for Diversity in Health Management
The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Minority Health on Wednesday, April 24th issued enhanced National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care, and a blueprint with guidance and strategies to help implement them.
The first update to the standards since their release in 2000 expands the concepts of culture, audience, health and recipients to reflect new developments and trends, and includes a focus on leadership and governance as drivers of culturally competent health care and health equity. "This long-awaited update will provide hospitals, physicians and others at the front lines of care a vital resource to ensure the care they provide is of the highest quality for all," AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock said in a blog post yesterday on the Equity of Care website, which supports the 2011 national call to action by AHA and others to eliminate health care disparities.
Umbdenstock participated in the launch of the standards at an HHS event yesterday morning. Fred Hobby, president and CEO of the AHA's Institute for Diversity in Health Management, served on the national advisory panel that developed and refined the enhanced standards.
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Santa Fe man changes careers, pursues 'new life' as nurse.
If Janet Patterson, RN, could go back in time, she would learn the answer to a simple yet overwhelming question: What exactly do nurses do?
For most people, images of bedpans and needles pop into their minds, says Patterson, a nurse for 33 years who now works as a home care nurse at Maxim Healthcare in Santa Rosa, Calif. "We think we know [before going to nursing school] what [nurses] do, but we really don't. I became a nurse and I couldn't talk about it with anyone who wasn't one."
A realistic job description tops the list of information veteran nurses say they wished they had known before embarking on their careers decades ago. Experienced nurses recommend that new nurses and students talk to people doing the job they want. Ask questions in person, by phone or online in chat groups for nurses.
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Simulated hospital gives nurses realistic training
Clad in pajamas and a Diamondbacks cap, the "patient" lay still in the bed as Banner Health registered nurse Stacey Fuller looked on and answered questions from an inquisitive mother worried about her son's asthma attack.
Fuller determined her "patient" displayed good vital signs - even without a heart, brain and other functioning organs.
A recent nursing school graduate, Fuller was interacting with one of 80 high-tech mannequins at the Banner Simulation Medical Center in Mesa, where some 1,500 registered nurses train a few days annually.
The mannequins give nurses the chance to practice their skills in a real-time setting before working at one of Banner's medical centers because they simulate breathing, bleeding, giving birth and even speaking.
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