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My mother was diabetic and she ended up in hospital. And when I went to the hospital, I talk to the nurse.

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And that's what you told me told your mom is non-compliant. But what she didn't realize was that my mom didn't

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understand what she was saying. My mom didn't like the food that they were given her. And I mean, there were a lot of

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issues they were not sensitive to to our culture in order to her beliefs to up into a number of things.

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So once we started explaining to the nursing staff and the medical staff what it's like to be a patient there that doesn't

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know their language and an M for this matter. For this matter, it doesn't have to be just my mom that was for the week and this is happens to their PCP.

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Nothing happens to anybody that English language is not their first language. So I mean, that may me I guess more

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involved in the community hours. I always been involved in the community, but I think that has made me pursue more community work.

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The National Association of Hispanic Nurses, another area that is very dear to my heart. When I came to the United States and I became a nurse and I started

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working in the hospitals. Are wanting to belong or I wanted I wanted to belong to an organization that I could call my mom.

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Yes, I belong to the American Nurses Association. Good. Belong to the blood Nurses Association.

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But when I learned about the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, I felt that this was something that I really needed

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to be part of it and be part of it in a, in a big way. So I joined the National Association of Hispanic Nurses in 1995,

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and I started working very hard with the community at that time. I started in Philadelphia. I became the precedent of the chapter.

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I was the president for four years. And after that, I decided that I needed, if I wanted to do more in the community and via voice there,

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I needed to go a step further. So I became the precedent, international precedent.

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We do a lot of outreach. We do a lot of community work. We we do teaching the community, providing services.

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There's HE at my church. I do seminars. I do in services. I mean, we do anything that will help

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increase the knowledge base on, on our population.