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New Castle resident Maria Villot is the past president of the National Hispanic Nurses Association, which focuses on identifying and supporting Hispanic nurses throughout the nation.
Many of those nurses were trained in other countries and immigrated to the United States. Their experience makes them valuable because of the growing number of Hispanic patients in the United States.
"Hispanic nurses can come in handy because we not only give people care but we can also give them culturally competent care," Villot said. "We speak the language, we know their customs and we can identify with them."
But Hispanic nurses comprise less than 1 percent of the nurses in the First State -- and less than 2 percent of the U.S. population of nurses.
Villot works in Philadelphia. She recently helped launch a Delaware chapter of the National Hispanic Nurses Association, which only has nine member nurses who work in Delaware.
Many of the Hispanic nurses who work in the United States come from Puerto Rico and are employed by Veterans Administration hospitals. They hold Puerto Rican licenses and are able to work in VA facilities without having taken the National Council Licensure Examination for registered nurses, since they have taken a similar exam in Spanish to be licensed in the commonwealth. The Wilmington VA Medical Center employs about sixteen Hispanic nurses.
Some states, including Delaware, do not allow nurses to work in health care facilities outside of the VA if they have not passed the U.S. test. Villot said that many Puerto Rican nurses do not have a strong enough grasp of the English language to pass the test.
But her association has mentoring programs to help them navigate the system and learn English so they can pass it.
"If you have a Spanish-speaking patient, an [English-speaking] nurse can tell them something and they'll say, 'Yes, yes,' and not have a clue what they've been taught," Villot said. "That's why it's so important to have someone who is bilingual."
Nurses in the Delaware chapter are visiting local high schools to introduce Hispanic students to the profession of nursing. The National Hispanic Nurses Association provides scholarships for training since a lot of parents cannot afford tuition and their kids end up working in factories and other low-paying jobs once they finish high school.
"But we're trying to help students so they don't have to do that," Villot said. "Hispanic nurses are in very high demand."source
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