Hispanics in Nursing The National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN) is profiling Hispanic nurses in a new radio campaign -- Carreras en Enfermería / Hispanics in Nursing -- to spark the interest of persons looking for rewarding and fulfilling career opportunities to grow professionally as a nurse.
Featured Role Model
Edith Bosque Barnes
Edith Bosque Barnes is attending the nursing program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. If there was one word to describe why she loves nursing, that word would be “opportunities.” She is torn between different fields within nursing because there are so many different types of jobs that registered nurses do. You can work in administration, research, education and of course bedside with different population groups. While doing her clinical rotations she was surprised to discover that she enjoyed her time working and learning from psychiatric nurse practitioners.
Out of the 3,000,000 registered nurses in the U.S., Hispanics represent only 3.6% even though Hispanics make up 17% of the U.S. population. Many Hispanic students and parents are not aware of the multiple opportunities that exist in the nursing fields.
