Diversity Nursing

JUNE 11, 2024

Mental health is a crucial component of overall well-being, yet many men face challenges in acknowledging and addressing their mental health needs. Societal expectations and traditional notions of masculinity often deter men from seeking help, resulting in untreated mental health issues.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

Then we chat with Scott Bauer, internist and researcher at UCSF, about how to assess and manage lower urinary tract symptoms in men. And something that I learned and then started to study afterwards was that men with prostate cancer use the future effects of treatments on urinary and sexual function to drive a lot of their treatment choices.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

Men make up approximately 11% of the Australian nursing workforce (Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia, 2019). There are many reasons why men don’t consider nursing, one of which is the massive misconception that nursing is a profession for females only. Men in Nursing and Midwifery. We need more men in nursing!

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AT Home Care & Hospice

JUNE 18, 2024

Understanding How Hospice Can Benefit Your Aging Male Patients: A Guide for Medical Professionals Men’s Health Month serves as a timely reminder to focus on the specific healthcare needs of the aging male population.

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Diversity Nursing

JUNE 8, 2023

Men's Health Month is an important observance aimed at raising awareness about the health issues affecting men and encouraging them to take proactive steps towards a healthier lifestyle. Below are general statistics and facts related to men's health. It typically affects older men, with the risk increasing with age.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 23, 2022

A majority of American men who die by suicide don’t have any known history of mental health problems, according to new research by UCLA professor Mark Kaplan and colleagues.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We talk about the history of the hospice unit, including how it was initially set up to care for young men dying of AIDS, but now cares for a very different demographic – the rapidly aging prison population. So the story of these men giving back and getting to a new place in their lives was very compelling. Alex: And it won a Grammy.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It’s terrible how many men and women are experiencing their last days or hours of life in prison,” Garlock told Hospice News. A lot of times these programs are run by the incarcerated men and women, with nurses and doctors having a very small part in taking care of them.”

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American In-Home Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While chest pain is the most well-known symptom of a heart attack, it's important to recognize that men and women often experience other distinct warning signs. Several factors increase the risk of heart attacks in both men and women. This sensation can feel like pressure, squeezing, fullness, or pain in the center of the chest.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

About 1-in-4 women compared to 1-in-9 men experience some form of violence from their partners in their lifetime, according to a report from NO MORE. Roughly a third of women have experienced sexual violence, versus 1-in-6 men, NO MORE reported. Data is sparse on abuse among transgender or non-binary individuals.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

And if only we lived in a world in which this issue, which affects half of older women and a third of older men, received the research and attention it deserves. And both the incidence and prevalence of incontinence, both men, for men and women, goes up dramatically with age and with aging. Do we see them commonly in men?

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

Among the study group, women were more likely to use psychology and spiritual care than men, and patients with Jewish parents born in Israel were more likely to receive spiritual care. These outcomes directly bear on improved quality of life and reduced costs.”

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Black men can do other things besides football and basketball, or being incarcerated in places like prison, so this is seen as an option that they can have,” shared nursing student John Babin, highlighting the broader possibilities for Black men in society. Black nurses make up only 6%, with men comprising a mere 9.4%

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Community Home Health Care

JUNE 11, 2024

June is Men’s Health Month and we’re dedicating some time to raising awareness about the health issues that specifically affect men and encouraging them to take proactive steps toward better health. For senior men , maintaining wellness is crucial for enjoying a high quality of life and preserving independence.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

VITAS recently received recognition from the American Association for Men in Nursing (AAMN) for creating an inclusive and diverse environment for patients and families. A key component of fostering health equity involves recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce, according to Deese.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2025

It was a home for men and women who were dying of cancer, and they were cared for by that time by a religious order who had taken over the administration of the facility. We started off with an eight-bed facility in 1899 that grew over the next 20 years or so. In the early 1900s we opened up a 100-bed facility, but it wasn’t a hospital.

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Interim HealthCare Inc.

JUNE 20, 2022

Attention men: this article is for you. Maybe your wife or loved one casually slipped it into your inbox or left a copy on the counter. Just know she did it out of love–she wants to remind you it’s time to be proactive about your health!

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Changing Lives Podcast

MAY 30, 2022

Even though caregiving is often thought of as a role assumed primarily by women, a recent survey found that 44% of caregivers are men. Find out more about the challenges men may face as caregivers in this week's Changing Lives podcast. Like their female counterparts, approximately 3.4

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

A growing mix of men, women, transgender and cisgender individuals have become interested in death doula work, along with people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, she added. The end-of-life doula workforce is becoming increasingly diverse, according to Carroll.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Men were more likely to get palliative care than women, and disparities were also observed between higher and lower income brackets and among the insured and uninsured. Access to palliative care varies significantly among patients of different ethnic or racial backgrounds, genders or socioeconomic status.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 9, 2025

Additionally, the current discourse of nursing excludes men and people from the global majority, with male global majority individuals being especially invisible [11]. For example, the media portrayal of [often female] nurses being doctors’ handmaidens persists, despite this being far from reality [10].

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

More than half of women and roughly 60% of men reported experiencing at least one traumatic event in their lifetime in a National Comorbidity Study (NCS). While recognition around trauma issues has grown, the needle has much farther to go to address the systemic challenges.

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 1, 2023

Anxiety, depression, despair, and even suicidal thoughts plague young boys and young men alike. Shockingly, teenage boys and young men in the United States are more than twice as likely, and sometimes up to four times as likely , to die by suicide compared to their female counterparts. Challenging societal expectations. Jennifer L.W.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

In the summer of my sophomore year, I went out to San Francisco and lived with 13 men that were dying of AIDs. In 1999, after reading a book, I was studying public health at University of Kansas. But I was really struck by the AIDS epidemic. And as we say in hospice, I kind of got the bug. I had no idea it was going to be a career.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2024

of the individuals surveyed were transgender men or women, or were nonbinary. An estimated 7% of nearly 12,150 adults 50 and older in the United States identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual in a recent nationwide survey from the Pew Research Center. Additionally, 0.3%

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 29, 2024

“ African American nurses account for 11% of the registered nurse workforce in the United States, and even less than that are African American men.

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Caregiverology

MARCH 12, 2024

In today's fast-paced world, men's health often takes a backseat until noticeable problems arise. However, one aspect of health that silently influences every facet of life is hormonal health.

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Diversity Nursing

AUGUST 8, 2022

Also only 2% of the survey’s respondents were Black or African American men, whereas Black or African American women made up 8% of female Nurses. By contrast, Asian men made up 10% of male Nurses, and Asian women made up only 5% of female Nurses. The report found that although Hispanics make up 17% of the total population, only 3.5%

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 11, 2024

Early in 1865, as the American Civil War drew to a close, over 3 million men had fought, half a million died, with almost as many wounded. and with her own funding established the Bureau of Records of Missing Men of the Armies of the United States. A trip to the Missing Soldiers Office Museum in Washington, D.C.,

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AT Home Care & Hospice

JUNE 23, 2022

Men, June means it’s time to take charge of your health! The month of June is Men’s Health Month and is dedicated to bringing awareness and providing education regarding all things health for the male population. The post Men’s Health Month appeared first on AT Home Care & Hospice.

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Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It’s the perfect treat for the men in your life who want to bring the barbershop experience into their homes, making them feel pampered and special. Art of Shaving : The Art of Shaving is a luxurious and indulgent gift that offers a range of options, from individual products to gift packages.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

When you take it to the spiritual component, that’s what a lot of these incarcerated men and women are lacking. Training these individuals to provide spiritual support can go a long way toward quality improvement, he added. It’s not wanting someone to suffer alone,” Garlock told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

I practiced in men’s and women’s health before deciding to start Blue Monarch Hospice. They’ve found their clinical backgrounds gave them valuable perspective as they worked to strike a balance between their patients and their workforce. As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program?

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Elaine Mansfield

MAY 10, 2022

I quietly thank Vic for loving me and read a poem we often read together, a poem that became my prayer and practice: When men and women come together, How much they have to abandon! What is it that men and women leave? Make their nests of fancy threads. And string ends, animals. Abandon all their money each year.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 25, 2022

In El Paso, Texas, men lined up outside the Corner of Hope, a homeless resource center, eyeing free supplies on plastic shelves inside a white van. Some wanted bags with toiletries or condoms, but others took kits that help them safely use drugs or naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal medicine. Gilbert Shepherd, an outreach worker […].

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Eric: Yeah, I love this paper because I remember in med school being taught maybe this talks about how maybe old I am now, UTI and men always complicated, always requires a two to four week course because it’s a complicated UTI. But what I did want to highlight is how we got to thinking about men that have UTIs have complicated UTIs.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 14, 2022

Black men had a 1.6-times times higher risk for cardiovascular disease compared with white men. The study found that clinical factors, socioeconomic factors and lifestyle behaviors explained the largest components of the higher risk experienced by Black men.

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