Photo by Keith Weller

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Nursing Spectrum President and Publisher Patti Rager, RN (center), congratulates members of the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations Board of Directors on the success of its first conference, Creating Research Careers: The Beginning, held March 10-13 in Washington.

From the left: Antonia M. Villarruel, RN; Bette Keltner, RN; Patti Rager, RN; Betty Smith Williams, RN; and Kem Louie, RN.

Nursing Spectrum is proud to support NCEMNA, an advocacy organization that gives voice to 350,000 minority nurses and to people marginalized from mainstream health delivery systems. NCEMNA is made up of five national ethnic nurse associations: the Asian American/Pacific Islander Nurses Association, National Alaska Native American Indian Nurses Association, National Association of Hispanic Nurses, National Black Nurses Association, and Philippine Nurses Association of America.