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How Nurses Can Provide Culturally Competent Care within the Hispanic/Latino Community With Felisa Hilbert, RN


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This week begins our deep dive into culturally competent care. We will talk with real people about that real problems surrounding their cultural needs. This week we talk with the amazing Felisha Hilbert, RN about culturally appropriate care for the Hispanic/Latino community. 


Felisa Hilbert is an activist, educator, nurse and global health advocate that has wide expertise in the education and health fields and has been recognize as a White House Champion of Change in Education and in 2019 she was name a “Protector of Progress” by the United Nations Foundation for her helping in SDGs.   Mrs. Hilbert is a passionate humanitarian with a heart for helping people, especially children in developing countries; she continues to travel and do work in Mexico were she founded a little clinic that helps provide free preventive medical care for people that live far away from medical facilities. She also had educated Mexican leaders on health & education issues.  She has been a Shot@life Champion for global vaccines since January 2012 and a Champion leader from 2014 until the present for the states Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma.

 Mrs. Hilbert is an active community organizer leader and an American Heart Association committee leader and Madrina for the last 8 years helping in promoting heart health in the Latino/Hispanic community.  

She is committed to teaching immigrant families how to better their lives and how to support children in their education goals; this involves teaching the values and richness of cultural diversity in our schools & communities. 

Mrs. Hilbert has received many recognitions for her dedication and service;  including the Gold Apple Award  from  Broken Arrow Public Schools  Distric; the Oklahoma State Multicultural Paraprofessional  of the year;  a Phoebe Hearst Award  from  National PTA; the Life Achievement Award  from  Oklahoma  State PTA;  She was name Mom  Congress delegate for the state of Oklahoma by Parenting Magazine; also she is a White House Champion of Change on Education honoree;  a United  Nations foundation Social Good fellow, a Social Good Global Vaccines Champion and 

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