HLTC02H3 Chapter Notes -Intersectionality, Macon County, Alabama, Darlene Clark Hine
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Week # 10: reflections on nurse rivers by darlene clark hine. To make a difference this was a both a slogan and an enduring motivator for black nursing professionals in order to survive. Belief that nurse should be a patient advocate. Major motivations for black women to become nurses parental prodding, head-on collisions with racial discrimination (?) and desire to reduce suffering. Nurses are usually the first point of contact between patients and the health care system within southern communities, their responsibility to shape and lay a solid foundation for future medical professional client relationship. Requirements: broad sympathies, profound understanding and tact and possess the requisite professional background. Focus of article the experiences of nurse rivers who had been recently hired at the. Alabama"s macon county moveable school, she trained at the tuskegee institute: duty: teach rural tenant farmer families basics, then became nurse at tuskegee syphilis experiment in macon county, alabama.
