A COVID-19 Vaccination Challenge.

Increasing trust in Black communities is crucial.

The Meaning of Depression Symptoms for Young Black Men Employed at a Community-Based Reentry Facility.

Only 10% of Black men are predicted to experience depression despite widespread disparities in education, employment, socioeconomic status, and incarceration. Gender, cultural, and situational variables force divergence from traditional symptoms of depression and complicate accurate identification of depression in young Black men. Twenty young Black men who were employed by a community-based reentry facility were interviewed about their perceptions of items on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale.

How African American Adolescents Manage Depression: Being With Others.

Background: African American (AA) adolescents with depression face serious negative outcomes. Despite racial/ethnic disparities in treatment utilization, few studies have explored how AA adolescents manage their depression.

Objective: To describe common ways AA adolescents manage depressive symptoms through relationships with people in their lives.

"Our depression is different": Experiences and perceptions of depression in young Black men with a history of incarceration.

One in three Black men in the US faces difficulties obtaining employment, housing and maintaining self-sufficiency post incarceration. Felony records result in considerable social and economic vulnerability, placing many young Black men at risk for depression. Little is known about depression in Black men with felony records.

My practice evolution: an appreciation of the discrepancies between the idealism of nursing education and the realities of hospital practice.

Newly graduated registered nurses face a barrage of physical and mental challenges in their first few years of practice, especially in the hospital setting. This article explores discrepancies between student nurse practice and professional nursing practice and the challenges that new nurses face in bridging the gap between idealistic theory and realistic practice. The author's subsequent graduate nursing education and continued practice in the field resulted in a personal evolution of practice that elicited a profound sense of appreciation for the field and a desire to share these experiences with other practicing nurses and students.