Researchers at University of Maryland School of Nursing Develop Tool for Noncommunicative patients

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 8
Keyword(s):  
University Of Maryland ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Maryland School

scholarly journals Esther McCready, RN: Nursing Advocate for Civil Rights

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phoebe Pollitt
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Racial Equity ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Continued Education ◽  
Maryland School

More than a decade before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as an African American teenager from Baltimore, Maryland, Esther McCready challenged the discriminatory admissions policies of the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON). The article explores nurse advocacy and how Esther McCready advocated for herself and greater racial equity in nursing education during a time of civil rights turmoil. Her actions eventually resulted in the formation of numerous schools of nursing for African Americans across the south. This article recounts McCready’s early life experiences and the powerful impact her actions had on creating educational options for nurses during a time when they were severely limited for African American women, including discussion of her student days at UMSON and her journey after nursing school. A review of pertinent legal cases and policies related to segregation and integration of higher education in the mid-twentieth century is presented, along with details of McCready’s continued education and advocacy.

scholarly journals Utilization of the Maryland Environmental Justice Screening Tool: A Bladensburg, Maryland Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aubree Driver ◽  
Crystal Mehdizadeh ◽  
Samuel Bara-Garcia ◽  
Coline Bodenreider ◽  
Jessica Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Air Toxics ◽  
Prince George's County ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Demographic Indicators ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Maryland School ◽  
The University

Maryland residents’ knowledge of environmental hazards and their health effects is limited, partly due to the absence of tools to map and visualize distribution of risk factors across sociodemographic groups. This study discusses the development of the Maryland EJSCREEN (MD EJSCREEN) tool by the National Center for Smart Growth in partnership with faculty at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. The tool assesses environmental justice risks similarly to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) EJSCREEN tool and California’s tool, CalEnviroScreen 3.0. We discuss the architecture and functionality of the tool, indicators of importance, and how it compares to USEPA’s EJSCREEN and CalEnviroScreen. We demonstrate the use of MD EJSCREEN through a case study on Bladensburg, Maryland, a town in Prince George’s County (PG) with several environmental justice concerns including air pollution from traffic and a concrete plant. Comparison reveals that environmental and demographic indicators in MD EJSCREEN most closely resemble those in EPA EJSCREEN, while the scoring is most similar to CalEnviroScreen. Case study results show that Bladensburg has a Prince George’s environmental justice score of 0.99, and that National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) air toxics cancer risk is concentrated in communities of color.

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