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Bringing Diversity to Nursing on Sunrise Radio:
On June 5, Sunrise radio interviewed Karen Devereaux Melillo,PhD, GNP,ANP-BC, FAANP and Lisa Abdallah,PhD,RN, about the nursing shortage and how the BDN project hopes to combat it.
Listen to their radio interview
Lawrence Mayor's Health Task Force: May 27, 2008 Health Professions in the Merrimack Valley. Presenters: Dr. Karen Devereaux Melillo, PhD, GNP,ANP-BC, FAANP, Professor and Chair, Department of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Jackie L. Long-Gooding, M.Ed, RRT-NPSm FAARC, Dean of Health Professsions, Northern Essex Community. Summary: According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2003 National Healthcare Disparities Report, patient-provider communication is negatively impacted when the health care provider is racially or ethnically different from the patient. This workshop will describe health education programs in place to increase the number of socio-ethnically and linguistically diverse healthcare providers in the Merrimack Valley. 
Karen Devereaux Mellillo, BDN Project Director (right), Ramona Nunez (left) and Renee Creeden (center)
Ramona Nunez, RN,BS -BDN Minority Nurse Recruiter and Renee Creeden, RN,BS - BDN Graduate Research Assistant
2007 Summer, Pilot Workshop Photos:
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