New Jersey Promotoras Serve as Role Models for Hispanic Women From: include.nurse.com
Tagged: latina, New Jersey, ProfessorPosted on: May 5th, 2008
Putting one’s self first — even when it comes to health care — is a foreign concept to many Hispanic women.
With the help of 13 Hispanic promotoras, or community health workers, Karen D’Alonzo, PhD, RN, APNC, a researcher and nurse practitioner at the Willetts Health Center at Rutgers’ Douglass Campus, and a Rutgers College of Nursing professor, responded to the need by developing a pilot activity intervention program.
D’Alonzo has trained 13 promotoras to lead classes and serve as instructors and role models for women in the Hispanic immigrant community in New Brunswick, N.J.”*
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