Links on Diversity In the Workplace:

Arctic Health
www.arctichealth.org

Closing the Gap—Multi-Ethnic Health Care (currently under construction)
www.closing-the-gap.com
Provides information that helps medical professionals and consumers address health issues that affect minority populations at disproportionately high rates.

Cross Cultural Health Care Program
www.xculture.org/
National leaders in training health care interpreters and health care professionals in issues of cultural competency. In addition they conduct research center on related issues with some 3 dozen resulting publications available at this time.

Diversity Rx
www.diversityRx.org
Promoting language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management
http://www.diversityconnection.org/diversityconnection_app/homepage/index.jsp
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management (IFD) is committed to expanding health care leadership for ethnic minorities and increasing the number of qualified minorities in positions of health service management.

Association of Minority Health Profession Schools
www.minorityhealth.org
Provides support for professional education, research, and community service that promotes optimum health among minorities and the underserved.  Engages the collaborative resources, scholarship, and technology from the minority health profession schools which consists of HBCUs that includes four schools of medicine, two schools of dentistry, five schools of pharmacy, and one school of veterinary medicine

National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE)
www.nahse.org
To ensure greater participation of minority groups in the health field.  To develop and maintain a strong viable national body to more effectively have input in the national health care delivery system. It has provided a vehicle for Blacks to effectively participate in the design, direction and delivery of quality health care to all people.  To improve the health status, economic opportunities and educational advancement of the communities it serveserved populations; furthering

Intercultural Cancer Council
http://iccnetwork.org
Promotes policies, programs, partnerships, and research to eliminate the unequal burden of cancer among racial and ethnic minorities and medically underserved populations in the United States and its associated territories.
 
The Minority Health Network (MHNet)
www.pitt.edu/~ejb4/min
Another information source for individuals interested in the health of minority groups.

Minority Health Project
www.minority.unc.edu
From the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

National Black Women's Health Project
http://www.blackwomenshealth.org
Provides wellness education and services, self-help group development, health information, and advocacy to improve the health of Black women.

National Center for Cultural Competence www.dml.georgetown.edu/depts/pediatrics/gucdc/cultural.html
Aim to increase the capacity of health care programs to design, implement and evaluate culturally competent service delivery systems.

Government Sites

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
www.ahrq.gov
(click on "Specific Populations" for minority health information)

Bureau of Primary Health Care
www.bphc.hrsa.gov
Aims to improve the health status of underserved and vulnerable populations.

Health Care Financing Administration
www.hcfa.gov
The HCFA administers the Medicare, Medicaid, and Child Health Insurance Programs.

Healthfinder
www.healthfinder.gov
Department of Health and Human Services health information Web site.

Indian Health Service
www.ihs.gov
A free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

MedlinePlus
http://medlineplus.gov
A health information service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. For minority health information, click on "Health Topics," then "Population Groups" (under "Demographic Groups" header).

Office of Minority Health Resource Center
www.omhrc.gov
Search databases on funding, media, research, data, and listings of volunteer resource persons, or access scientific reports, journals, and documents.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
www.hhs.gov/ocr
Web page of the Office for Civil Rights.

Nurses With Disabilities

ExceptionalNurse.com
www.ExceptionalNurse.com
A resource network for nursing students and nurses with disabilities, nursing faculty members, and guidance counselors. It includes links to disability-related organizations, financial aid, employment opportunities, equipment, technology, legal issues, and research.

Disabled And Injured Healthcare Workers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledAndInjuredHealthcareWorkers/
Click the above link to subscribe to this Yahoo! group. They help physically and mentally disabled nurses who want to stay active in their field. They also help with workplace discrimination.

Other General Nursing Sites

Forensic Nursing Chronicles
http://www.forensicnursingcourses.com/blog/
Real Life Adventures in Forensic Nursing

The Nursing Job Search Handbook
http://www.upenn.edu/careerservices/nursing/jobhandbookindex.html
Advice and samples of resumes and cover letters, tips and example questions from job interviews, and guidelines for follow-up correspondence. Created by the University of Pennsylvania.

Ask an Experienced Nurse
http://www.allexperts.com/getExpert.asp?Category=1527
A dozen professional nurses, students, and professors have agreed to answer and question you may have.

Research a Drug
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/
A drug information resource for the healthcare professional. From Johns Hopkins Health Information.

New and Generic Drug Approvals
http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/default.htm
The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research maintains this page on daily basis. Also a great resource for public health alerts, drug research, and information on safety and side effects.

NursingHands.com
www.nursinghands.com
Nursing Hands was founded by a group of individuals with a shared commitment to promoting the healing and care-giving power of nurses within the healthcare community.

Healthopedia.com
www.healthopedia.com

The Center for Cross Cultural Health
www.crosshealth.com
A unique resource designed to help health-care providers in their work with patients of diverse cultures.

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