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There are many challenges faced by aboriginal health care providers in today?s society. Most health care providers such as Licensed Practical Nurses, Registered Nurses, Special Care Aides, Porters, Clerks face many obstacles in their everyday lives. Among these professions, one of the most complex is nursing. Nurses are faced with many obstacles in their everyday lives as a health provider. They are faced with problems in education, in the work environment with ethnic diversity, and the emotional stress With the amount of people retiring each year in the health care field, the demand for nurses is increasing at an extreme rate. Registered Nurses occupy a highly visible space in the public?s view of health care. In many jurisdictions there are not enough RN programs, especially in the southern United States. An expansion of training or distance learning programs would provide access to nursing educations to many prospective Aboriginal RN?s who cannot travel for education. Many Aboriginal persons are underrepresented in the nursing workforce.
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