Newark Community Health Centers

The qualitative study utilized a community-based participatory research approach to leverage a partnership between academic researchers and the Newark Community Street Team to examine the experiences of those who own and have access to illegal firearms in a sample of 28 Black and Brown participants in Newark, New Jersey. The findings affirm the reasons why illegal firearms owners acquire firearms, including protection. We found that participants did not store their firearms securely and firearms were accessible through multiple avenues. The study findings provide insights on what participants identified as prevention and intervention efforts for addressing illegal firearm ownership, including changing community social norms and providing healing groups for youth.

Hispanics, the fastest-growing minority population in the United States, make up only 5% of the nursing workforce. To help eliminate health care disparities, recruiting and retaining Hispanic nursing students is a necessary step. This article discusses barriers that Hispanic students encounter and responsibilities of nursing faculty in retaining Hispanic students, and proposes the use of frameworks that enhance a new paradigm to encourage more inclusive teaching in a positive environment.

Concentrations of toxic metals can be determined in a drop of blood, such as might be obtained from a finger-prick, by spotting the blood onto filter paper, drying it, and then burning a standard size disc punched from the filter paper in an atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Results for lead, cadmium and zinc determined in this manner compare favorably with accepted macro-methods of analysis. The advantages of this procedure, namely the ease of specimen collection and the simplicity of the analysis, may make this the method of choice in biochemical monitoring for trace metal absorption by workers.