How Nurses Can Combat Inequality

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I am a nursing student and ever since sociology I have been shocked by inequality in the United States particularly. We are going over a unique on racial disparaties in healthcare and I am just wondering how we, as nurses, can help combat these disparaties & inequality for the poor in general. Do you think public health nursing would be a good field to go into for someone interested in this kind of work or adovacy?

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Specializes in Critical Care/Coronary Care Unit,.

If you are interested in the disparities in healthcare, public health nursing is definitely the way to go or community health nursing which is a type of public health nursing. You can even get a master's in public health. Good luck to you. We need more people to treat our underserved populations.

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Specializes in Home health was tops, 2nd was L&D.

Yes I agree community/public health is a great place to start. Then perhaps moving up to some type of upper mgmt job within government or large hospital system. Good Luck to you.

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Thank you I recently learn that one of our clinical sites is at a homeless shelter so I think I am going to see if this is something I'd like and a place to start.

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