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Honoring Hispanic Nurses Who Shaped Health Care

Posted by Carlos Perez

Wed, Sep 17, 2025 @ 12:17 PM

Every year during Hispanic Heritage Month, we highlight the powerful contributions of Hispanic and Latinx Nurses, those who broke barriers, built institutions, and continue to lead change in health care. For Nurses today, their stories are not just inspiring; they are lessons in advocacy, perseverance, and cultural humility. Below are profiles of both past and present Hispanic/Latinx Nurse leaders whose work has shaped health care in meaningful ways.

Historical Trailblazers

Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, PhD, RN, FAAN
Born in Panama in 1920, Murillo-Rohde moved to the U.S. and became deeply aware of the lack of Hispanic representation among Nurses in communities where it was most needed. She earned advanced degrees, including her Ph.D. from NYU, and was the first Hispanic Dean of Nursing at New York University. Her most enduring legacy is founding the National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN) in 1975 — to support Hispanic Nurses and improve culturally competent care. AAMC


Hector Hugo Gonzalez, PhD, VR-RN
Gonzalez was the first Mexican-American Registered Nurse in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. (1974). He devoted much of his career to creating access, especially for Hispanic and male Nursing students. As chair of the Department of Nursing Education at San Antonio College, he helped develop flexible curricula (evening classes) to allow non-traditional students to succeed. TNAA


Henrieta Villaescusa, MPH, RN
A pioneer in public health, Villaescusa held many “firsts”: she was the first Hispanic Nurse appointed to an administrative role in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; first Mexican-American Chief Nurse consultant in the Office of Maternal & Child Health. Throughout her career, she was a voice for Latino health on both local and national levels. AJC


Nelly Garzón Alarcón
From Colombia, Garzón Alarcón was the first Latin American Nurse to become president of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in 1985. She made major contributions to Nursing education, ethics, and regulation. Her leadership was not just national but global. Wikipedia


Carmen Lozano Dumler, RN
One of the first Puerto Rican women to become a U.S. Army officer, Dumler served during WWII. Her service as a Nurse and interpreter helped bridge language and culture for many Spanish-speaking patients in the Army Nurse Corps. Wikipedia


Modern Leaders Continuing the Legacy

Dr. Adrianna Nava, PhD, MPA, MSN, RN, FAAN
Previous President of NAHN, Dr. Nava has been recognized among Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Emerging Leaders (2023) for her work with veteran and Latino health, policy, and leadership. She is actively working to close health disparities using performance measurement, policy, and community engagement. nahnnet.org


Hilda Ortiz-Morales, Ph.D., NP, AAHIVS
A Nurse Practitioner, Professor, and HIV/HCV program coordinator, Ortiz-Morales works explicitly with populations disproportionately affected by health inequities, including Hispanic and Black patients. Her service, teaching, and mentorship demonstrate how modern Nursing leadership mixes clinical practice, research, and advocacy. AJC


Why These Stories Matter for Nurses Today

  • Representation has ripple effects: Seeing Nurses who share one’s culture, language, or background can enhance trust, improve communication, and help institutions better serve communities.

  • Advocacy is as much part of the job as clinical care: Many of the figures above didn’t stop at caring for patients, they pushed systems to change, created organizations (like NAHN), influenced policy, and opened doors for those who came after.

  • Cultural competence isn’t optional: Historical leaders understood that language, cultural understanding, and context matter in Nursing. Today’s Nurses continue to build on that work, integrating it into education, research, and everyday patient care.

  • Continuous learning and mentorship: Many of the historical figures came from modest beginnings, yet they pursued advanced education and mentored others. Modern leaders still model those traits. For Nurses in training or early career phases, these are powerful role models.

How to Honor & Learn from These Leaders

  • Feature them in your workplace during Hispanic Heritage Month: Posters, newsletters, short staff presentations.

  • Incorporate their work into training and education: Example case studies, guest speakers.

  • Mentorship programs: Connect newer Nurses (especially Hispanic/Latinx) with senior leaders or peers who understand their journey.

  • Advocate for inclusive policies: Language access, equitable hiring, flexible training options.

Hispanic and Latinx Nurses have shaped, and continue to shape, the nursing profession by breaking barriers, advocating for underrepresented communities, and pushing for health equity. Honoring them isn’t just about looking back, it’s about continuing the work they started. As Nurses today, we can carry forward their legacy through inclusive practice, leadership, and advocacy.

Topics: hispanic nurse, latino nurses, Hispanic Heritage Month

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage and the Importance of Representation in Nursing

Posted by Sarah West APRN, FNP-BC

Wed, Sep 13, 2023 @ 10:16 AM

Each year, from September 15th through October 15th, Americans honor and celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. Hispanic Heritage Month is a month-long celebration where we recognize the histories, cultures, and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Hispanic or Latino Heritage. The celebration begins on September 15th because it marks the anniversary of when Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua gained independence.

When Nursing professionals represent the patient populations they care for, healthcare improves for both the patient and the healthcare provider. Hispanic Nurses, like Nurses from any other cultural background, play a vital role in Nursing, bringing varied perspectives and beliefs into view.

While Latinos represent 18% of the US population, less than 7% of the Nursing workforce is of Latino descent https://www.nahnnet.org/about-nahn. Here are some of the many benefits Hispanic representation adds to the Nursing profession.

Diversity and Cultural Competence

As patients come from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds, representation in Nursing is crucial for better patient outcomes and satisfaction. Thankfully, the healthcare landscape is becoming increasingly more diverse, with more and more Nurses of Hispanic and Latino heritage joining the field.

Hispanic Nurses bring cultural competency and an understanding to the profession that can significantly differ from other cultural backgrounds. Representation of Hispanic individuals in the nursing progression can bridge communication gaps and foster trust between patients and healthcare providers.

Language Skills

Many Hispanic Nurses are bilingual or multilingual, which is crucial to providing effective care to patients with limited proficiency in English. Properly communicating with patients in their native language improves comprehension of medical instructions and guidelines, reduces misunderstandings, and ensures accurate exchange of information. Explaining medical information in language and terms your patients understand increases medical compliance.

Representation

Representation matters in all professions, especially in healthcare. When patients see healthcare professionals who share their background, it creates comfort and understanding within the Patient-Nurse relationship. This encourages patients to better engage in their care and treatment plans. When patients feel connected with their healthcare provider, healthcare outcomes are often improved.  

Community Outreach

Nurses from different ethnic backgrounds can significantly improve community outreach by better connecting to different patient populations. Hispanic Nurses can help educate the people of their communities about preventative care, health screenings, vaccinations, and other important health topics in language and terminology that they can better understand. Community outreach within diverse patient populations promotes health awareness and encourages people to seek medical attention promptly.

Reduce Health Disparities

Addressing health disparities in the Hispanic population can be challenging. Unfortunately, many Hispanic people face health disparities due to socioeconomic status, limited access to healthcare, and cultural barriers. Hispanic Nurses have a unique understanding of these challenges, can make efforts to reduce these disparities, and advocate for equitable healthcare access and resources. 

Patient Advocacy

Nurses of Hispanic heritage can advocate for their patients, particularly those facing discrimination or systemic barriers. They can help ensure that patient concerns are heard, help promote informed decision-making, and work towards providing a patient-centered approach.

Cultural Sensitivity

Every patient comes from a different background or culture, and everyone has unique healthcare beliefs and practices. Hispanic Nurses can understand these nuances and help provide care to patients that respects and accommodates their cultural preferences while also adhering to evidence-based medical practices.  

Workforce Enhancement

Hispanic representation in the Nursing profession encourages diversity and helps enrich the profession with various perspectives and experiences. Healthcare diversity can lead to innovative solutions and approaches to healthcare challenges and improve patient outcomes.

Conclusion

Hispanic Nurses can significantly contribute to the healthcare system by bringing diversity, cultural understanding, language skills, representation, and a deeper connection to the communities they serve. Hispanic representation in Nursing enhances the overall quality of care and helps address healthcare disparities while fostering a more inclusive and patient-centered healthcare environment.

Topics: hispanic nurse, hispanic, Hispanic Heritage Month, representation

Nurses, Addicted to Helping People

Posted by Alycia Sullivan

Fri, Nov 02, 2012 @ 02:46 PM

By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
NYTimes.com


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When a book is heavy with glossy photographs, you seldom expect too much from its words. In “The American Nurse,” though, it’s the narrative that hits you in the solar plexus.

Take the comments of Jason Short, a hospice nurse in rural Kentucky. Mr. Short started out as an auto mechanic, then became a commercial trucker. “When the economy went under,” he says, “I thought it would be a good idea to get into health care.” But a purely pragmatic decision became a mission: Mr. Short found his calling among the desperately ill of Appalachia and will not be changing careers again.

“Once you get a taste for helping people, it’s kind of addictive,” he says, dodging the inspirational verbiage that often smothers the healing professions in favor of a single incontrovertible point.
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Some of the 75 nurses who tell their stories in this coffee-table book headed into the work with adolescent passion; others backed in reluctantly just to pay the bills. But all of them speak of their difficult, exhilarating job with the same surprised gratitude: “It’s a privilege and honor to do what I do,” says one. “I walk on sacred ground every day.”

They hail from a few dozen health care settings around the country, ranging from large academic institutions like Johns Hopkins in Baltimore to tiny facilities like the Villa Loretto Nursing Home in Mount Calvary, Wis., home to 50 patients and a collection of goats, sheep and other animals on a therapeutic farm. Some nurses are administrators, some staff wards or emergency rooms, some visit patients at home. Many are deeply religious, a few are members of the military, and a handful of immigrants were doctors in their home countries.

All describe unique professional paths in short first-person essays culled from video interviews conducted by the photographer Carolyn Jones. Their faces beam out from the book in Ms. Jones’s black-and-white headshots, a few posing with a favorite patient or with their work tools — a medevac helicopter, a stack of prosthetic limbs or a couple of goats.

But even the best photographs are too static to capture people who never stop moving once they get to work. For a real idea of what goes on in their lives, you have to listen to them talk.

Here is Mary Helen Barletti, an intensive care nurse in the Bronx: “My whole life I’ve marched to a the beat of a different drummer. I used to have purple hair, which I’d blow-dry straight up. I wore tight jeans, high heels and — God forgive me — fur (now I am an animal rights activist). My patients loved it. They said I was like sunshine coming into their room.”

Says Judy Ramsay, a pediatric nurse in Chicago: “For twelve years I took care of children who would never get better. People ask how I could do it, but it was the most fulfilling job of my life. We couldn’t cure these kids, but we could give them a better hour or even a better minute of life. All we wanted to do was make their day a little brighter.”

Says Brad Henderson, a nursing student in Wyoming: “I decided to be a nurse because taking care of patients interested me. Once I started, nursing just grabbed me and made me grow up.”

Says Amanda Owen, a wound care nurse at Johns Hopkins: “My nickname here is ‘Pus Princess.’ I don’t talk about my work at cocktail parties.”

John Barbe, a hospice nurse in Florida, sums it up: “When I am out in the community and get asked what I do for a living, I say that I work at Tidewell Hospice, and there’s complete silence. You can hear the crickets chirping. It doesn’t matter because I love what I do; I can’t stay away from this place.”

The volume is not entirely about selfless service: It was underwritten by Fresenius-Kabi, a German health care corporation and leading supplier of intravenous drugs in the United States. Presumably, crass public relations motives lurk somewhere in the background. But that’s no real reason to be meanspirited about the result, a compelling advertisement for an honorable profession.

Young people with kind hearts and uncertain futures might just sit themselves down with the book, or wander through the Web site featuring its video interviews, www.americannurseproject.com, and see what happens.

Topics: help, book, diversity, nursing, hispanic nurse, hispanic, healthcare, nurse, nurses

Bringing diversity to the nursing workforce

Posted by Hannah McCaffrey

Tue, Sep 04, 2012 @ 08:23 PM

by Katrina Gravel

This past month, the George Washington University School of Nursing (GW) received a three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to fund a program that aims to increase the diversity of nursing professionals, according to a press release from GW. The school’s Success in Nursing Education project focuses not only on drawing in African-American, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American students, but also male students and economically disadvantaged students from Washington, D.C., and rural Virginia. nurse ethnicA report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in September 2010 showed that men made up less than 10% of employed RNs licensed between 2000 and 2008, while non-white or Hispanic nurses represented only 16.8% of all registered nurses in 2008. While those percentages may have grown in years since the HHS survey, it is unlikely that the gap has become significantly smaller.

The lack of ethnic minorities, males, and economically disadvantaged nursing students does not reflect the immense diversity of the patients these students will soon be treating. As an article in GW’s student newspaper The GW Hatchet cites the school of nursing’s Dean Jean Johnson as saying, “the nursing workforce should reflect what the population at large looks like.”

GW will use the grant to launch a recruitment campaign to reach disadvantage students, as well as students who are changing careers. The program will offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing, and will utilize retention tools such as mentoring programs. The grant will also create scholarships and financial aid for some students, according to the GW press release.

Has your organization made efforts to diversify its staff? What are your thoughts on the GW program? Leave a comment and let us know!

Topics: asian nurse, diversity, nursing, hispanic nurse, ethnic, hispanic, nurse, nurses, diverse african-american

Top 5 Challenges Facing Nursing in 2012

Posted by Pat Magrath

Tue, May 01, 2012 @ 07:39 AM

2010 may have been the year when enormous healthcare changes began, but 2011 was the year these changes hit nursing. In addition, the Institute of Medicine's landmark Future of Nursing report was released at the end of 2010 and much of this year has been spent digesting its recommendations and searching for ways to put them into practice.
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Here's a quick rundown of the most pressing issues for Nursing in 2012:

1. Advanced degrees are no longer optional

The IOM's recommendation for 80% of all RNs to have a baccalaureate degree by 2020 has not veered too intensely into the old ADN vs. BSN quagmire. Instead, the profession is focusing on ways to engage nurses in lifelong learning so that associate degree nurses can find realistic ways to obtain BSN degrees.

In addition, BSN nurses are encouraged to be leaders in evidence-based practice and research and it's becoming more common—and crucially, more expected—for nurses to pursue master's degrees. And the creation of the doctor of nursing practice degree has taken off better than anyone could have expected.

In the last six months, any time nurse executives get together, the conversation always turns to who has already entered a program and how long it's going to take the rest of the group to do so.

 
2. Patient engagement gets real

If you haven't found a way to drive home the importance of patient experience to direct-care nurses, find it now. You know how much reimbursement is at stake, but the rank and file caregivers still don't get it. The term "patient experience" has a way of annoying bedside caregivers. '"We're not Disneyworld," is a common refrain; people don't want to be in the hospital. "I'm here to save patients' lives, not entertain them," is another common complaint.  

Experience isn't about mollycoddling patients, however, or how flashy the in-room entertainment system is and that's what you need to help nurses understand. In fact, the nurse-patient relationship has always been about patient experience.

Your best nurses instinctively know this. They already create a good patient experience. They help patients understand their care, involve families in decision-making, coordinate multidisciplinary care, sit with patients to explain complex diagnoses, and even, occasionally, have time to offer a quick hug or hand to hold. These are the nurses who get letters from patients and families after discharge and these letters are all about the patient experience.

This is how you need to phrase patient experience with nursing staff so they understand it's not just a program, but a way of life. At the same time, nursing needs to own the cause. They may not be responsible for it in isolation, but they are literally at the center of this issue. They should take the lead and drive the agenda.

3. Patient safety

Just as nurses should own patient experience, they need to feel ownership for patient safety as well. It has been written that "quality improvement becomes one more meaningless directive from 'above' unless nurses feel engaged in the process, involved in the plans, and accountable for the results."

Preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAI) is no longer simply the right thing to do, it's become the only financially viable option. Unless nurses are educated and empowered, real progress cannot be made.

4. Cost cutting

Nursing knows that hiring freezes and layoffs are a constant threat and healthcare organizations are forced to put cost cutting at the top of the agenda in 2012. As the largest budget in the organization, nursing is an easy target.

Organizations can get more agile with staffing and scheduling and find creative ways to reduce cost while maximizing efficiency. Embrace change and flexibility to create the mobile, agile workforce healthcare organizations need to adapt to changing economic realities and increases in patient population.

At the same time, staffing budgets can't be viewed in isolation. There are direct links between nurse staffing and length of stay, patient mortality, readmissions, adverse events, fatigue-related errors, patient satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and turnover. This article examines the danger of considering the cost of nurse staffing without looking at everything else. It's important to understand the relationship between length of stay, unreimbursed never events, and nurse staffing to understand the whole picture.

5. Retention

It's been said before, but ignore retention at your peril. The nursing shortage hasn't gone away simply because the recession has eased its immediate effects. We all know the turnover rate for new graduate nurses is always high, so invest in nurse residency programs that have proven results for retention and for increasing the competency of new nurses.

Topics: diversity, nursing, hispanic nurse, nurse, nurses, retain, retention

Survey: Nurses highest users of social media for career development

Posted by Wilson Nunnari

Mon, Apr 16, 2012 @ 03:19 PM

socialmediaimagesPhysicians, nurses, allied health professionals and pharmacists are using social media tools to network with professional colleagues, track down job leads and apply for new positions, according to a new survey.

The survey was conducted by AMN Healthcare, which bills itself as the nation's largest healthcare staffing and workforce solutions company. AMN Healthcare's "2010 Social Media Survey of Healthcare Professionals" was designed to provide healthcare employers and leaders a snapshot of how healthcare professionals are currently using social media and other online applications for networking, job hunting and other career development activities. The survey, which was conducted this fall, received 1,248 responses.

The survey suggests that traditional methods of recruitment such as referrals, online job boards and search engines are not being superseded by social media, whereas social media does surpass other job search methods such as newspaper ads, career fairs and other methods.  At the same time, social networking sites are experiencing tremendous growth, and have become the new frontier in professional networking and career development for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals and pharmacists. Job candidates are spending more time online and experimenting with media sites for job searches, but have thus far found minimal success in securing interviews, job offers and positions.

"It's not surprising that social media and mobile media usage have become additional job sourcing methods for healthcare professionals and a way to network with peers and companies," said Susan Salka, AMN's president and CEO. "What this tells us is that job seekers will add new methods and continue to replace those that don't work as they have access to innovative new resources. As the nation's largest healthcare staffing company, we find this information valuable in being able to connect with top talent in healthcare today. It will be interesting to compare this year's results with those from 2011 and beyond to gauge the search methods and developing preferences of job seekers."

Key survey findings:

    Thirty-eight percent of clinicians surveyed are currently seeking employment, and 12 percent of current job seekers have been looking for more than a year.
    Nurses have had a significantly shorter job search than their fellow professionals, averaging three months, compared to just less than seven months for physicians and allied professionals, and nine months for pharmacists.
    Thirty-seven percent of clinicians reported using social media for professional networking; nurses had the highest use among healthcare workers at 41 percent.
    Ten percent of healthcare professionals are using mobile job alerts, but only 3 percent have received an interview, 2 percent have received a job offer and 1 percent secured a new job.
    Physicians are by far the heaviest users of mobile devices for professional reasons among their medical colleagues; 37 percent used healthcare-related applications and 17 percent used mobile devices for healthcare-related content or jobs.
    Sixty-four percent of the clinicians surveyed would choose Facebook, the clear favorite, if they could choose only one social networking site.

Topics: Workforce, nursing, hispanic nurse, nurse, nurses, social media

Our top 10 great attributes of a nurse.

Posted by Wilson Nunnari

Sun, Mar 04, 2012 @ 02:36 PM

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1. Communication Skills

Solid communication skills are a basic foundation for any career. But for nurses, it’s one of the most important aspects of the job. A great nurse has excellent communication skills, especially when it comes to speaking and listening. Based on team and patient feedback, they are able to problem-solve and effectively  communicate with patients and families.

Nurses always need to be on top of their game and make sure that their patients are clearly understood by everyone else. A truly stellar nurse is able to advocate for her patients and anticipate their needs.

 

2. Emotional Stability

Nursing is a stressful job where traumatic situations are common. The ability to accept suffering and death without letting it get personal is crucial. Some days can seem like non-stop gloom and doom.

That’s not to say that there aren’t heartwarming moments in nursing. Helping a patient recover, reuniting families, or bonding with fellow nurses are special benefits of the job. A great nurse is able to manage the stress of sad situations, but also draws strength from the wonderful outcomes that can and do happen.


3. Empathy

Great nurses have empathy for the pain and suffering of patients. They are able to feel compassion and provide comfort. But be prepared for the occasional bout of compassion fatigue; it happens to the greatest of nurses. Learn how to recognize the symptoms and deal with it efficiently.

Patients look to nurses as their advocates — the softer side of hospital bureaucracy. Being sympathetic to the patient’s hospital experience can go a long way in terms of improving patient care. Sometimes, an empathetic nurse is all patients have to look forward to.

4. Flexibility

Being flexible and rolling with the punches is a staple of any career, but it’s especially important for nurses. A great nurse is flexible with regards to working hours and responsibilities. Nurses, like doctors, are often required to work long periods of overtime, late or overnight shifts, and weekends.

Know that it comes with the territory. The upside is that a fluctuating schedule often means you’re skipping the 9 to 5, cubicle treadmill. Sounds perfect, right? Run errands, go to the movies, or spend time with the family — all while the sun still shines!

5. Attention to Detail

Every step in the medical field is one that can have far-reaching consequences. A great nurse pays excellent attention to detail and is careful not to skip steps or make errors.

From reading a patient’s chart correctly to remembering the nuances of a delicate case, there’ s nothing that should be left to chance in nursing. When a simple mistake can spell tragedy for another’s life, attention to detail can literally be the difference between life and death.

6. Interpersonal Skills

Nurses are the link between doctors and patients. A great nurse has excellent interpersonal skills and works well in a variety of situations with different people. They work well with other nurses, doctors, and other members of the staff.

Nurses are the glue that holds the hospital together. Patients see nurses as a friendly face and doctors depend on nurses to keep them on their toes. A great nurse balances the needs of patient and doctor as seamlessly as possible.

7. Physical Endurance

Frequent physical tasks, standing for long periods of time, lifting heavy objects (or people), and performing a number of taxing maneuvers on a daily basis are staples of nursing life. It’s definitely not a desk job.

Always on the go, a great nurse maintains her energy throughout her shift, whether she’s in a surgery or checking in on a patient. Staying strong, eating right, and having a healthy lifestyle outside of nursing is important too!

8. Problem Solving Skills

A great nurse can think quickly and address problems as — or before — they arise.

With sick patients, trauma cases, and emergencies, nurses always need to be on hand to solve a tricky situation. Whether it’s handling the family, soothing a patient, dealing with a doctor, or managing the staff, having good problem solving skills is a top quality of a great nurse.

9. Quick Response

Nurses need to be ready to respond quickly to emergencies and other situations that arise. Quite often, health care work is simply the response to sudden incidences, and nurses must always be prepared for the unexpected.

Staying on their feet, keeping their head cool in a crisis, and a calm attitude are great qualities in a nurse.

10. Respect

Respect goes a long way. Great nurses respect people and rules. They remain impartial at all times and are mindful of confidentiality requirements and different cultures and traditions. Above all, they respect the wishes of the patient him- or herself.

Great nurses respect the hospital staff and each other, understanding that the patient comes first. And nurses who respect others are highly respected in return.

Topics: women, diversity, Workforce, hispanic nurse, diverse, hispanic, black nurse, black, healthcare, nurse, nurses, communication

Hispanics More Active on Social Media than Other Ethnicities

Posted by Wilson Nunnari

Sun, Mar 04, 2012 @ 10:48 AM

Time spent and social sites visited outpace other US internet user groups

US Hispanics are more active on social media than the average US internet user, and are logging in more frequently to a wider variety of social sites.

The February 2012 “American Pulse Survey” from BIGinsight of US adult internet usage found that, while greater percentages of black internet users spent larger blocks of time online than the other groups studied, Hispanic internet users spent more of their online time on social media sites.

On an average day, 26.8% of Hispanic internet users spent six hours or more on social media sites, while 20.4% of black internet users and only 8.5% of total internet users spent that much time on social sites.

Looking specifically at which sites social-savvy Hispanics were using, the survey found US Hispanics were willing to participate in some newer and smaller social sites, logging in more often to networks like Pinterest, foursquare and LinkedIn, for example, than the average US internet user.

In the case of LinkedIn, 15.5% of US Hispanic internet users logged in to that site at least once a day, compared to 10.9% of black internet users and 4.9% of white ones. And, while 85% of white and 82.7% of black internet users reported not having an account on Pinterest, that number dropped to 71.5% among Hispanic internet users.

As marketers work to reach these active Hispanic internet users, data about which social sites Hispanics prefer and their frequency of use can be key to understanding where and when to connect with these consumers.

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Topics: diversity, hispanic nurse, hispanic, social media, internet use

Nursing Students Go High Tech

Posted by Pat Magrath

Wed, Feb 15, 2012 @ 11:24 AM

Student at the UCLA School of Nursing start their nursing career with a high tech boost. As part of their ceremony to receive their white coats, this year they were also give iPod Touch devices preloaded with Medication and Diagnosis guides as well as a Spanish language dictionary and translation assistance. UCLA is determined to offer new grad nurses that are ready for "High Touch" care but within a "High Tech" environment.

 Nursing Reimagined. Nursing Redefined.

Topics: asian nurse, chinese, Latina, chinese nurse, diversity, employment, nursing, hispanic nurse, diverse, hispanic, Employment & Residency, black nurse, black, health, healthcare, nurses, diverse african-american

Aging America creates demand for health-care workers

Posted by Wilson Nunnari

Mon, Feb 13, 2012 @ 11:02 AM

This is a subject matter we are always talking about. You hear the labor projections, but in a way it is a grim and sobering reminder that the healthcare labor force is in for some major gwoing pains. Are you experiencing this in your workplace? What do you think?

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(from Reuters.com) - The graying of America and a booming Hispanic population is driving major changes in the structure of the U.S. workforce and the types of jobs that will be available over the next decade, a new government report shows.

Health care and social assistance jobs will be the fastest-growing sectors, accounting for one quarter of the 20.2 million new jobs the economy is expected to generate by 2020.
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Retiring baby boomers will help open up an additional 33.8 million positions for total vacancies of 54 million, the Labor Department said on Wednesday in its biannual Employment Outlook report for job growth between 2010 and 2020.

During the recent recession, employment declined by 7.8 million jobs to a total of 129.8 million in 2010. The report does not estimate by what year those jobs will be replaced.

In addition, the workforce is getting older. Despite the retirement surge, a slowdown in population growth means that the post-World War II baby boomers will make up a quarter of all U.S. workers by 2020, up from 19.5 percent today.

Hispanics, meanwhile, are joining the workforce at a fast pace. They will represent 18.6 percent of overall employment by decade's end, up from 14.8 percent today. In contrast, Asians and African-Americans will see their share in the labor force rise by 1 percentage point or less to 5.7 percent and 12 percent, respectively.

"The labor force is projected to get older, become racially and ethnically more diverse and show a small increase in women as a share of the total," the department said.

Professional and business services will be the second-fastest growing industry, adding 3.8 million positions.

It will be followed by construction, although the 1.8 million new construction jobs will not bring employment in the industry back to levels seen during the housing boom.

SKILLS DIVIDE

The report also spelled out the skills workers of the future will need.

Two thirds of the total job openings will require only a high-school education or less, it said. For example, there will be roughly 70 percent growth in personal care aides and health-care support employment, the fastest-growing occupations. No high school diploma would be required, and workers would get short, on-the-job training.

At the same time, demand for people with master's degrees will increase by 21.7 percent, the Labor Department said.

The manufacturing sector and the federal government will both lose jobs over the next decade.

Topics: women, Workforce, employment, hispanic nurse, hispanic, health, healthcare

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