title: Asian/Pacific Islander American nurses workforce: issues and challenges for the 21st century.
abstract: The trend of high incidence of lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, Hepatitis B, and tuberculosis among the Asian/Pacific Islander Americans (APIAs) will significantly affect the increased need for culturally competent care for this particular ethnic group. There is a need to increase the numbers of Asian/Pacific Islander American nurses in the future workforce to meet the health needs of this heterogenous and diversified population. Current workforce data on the Asian/Pacific Islander American nurses is misleading, since data collection aggregates all APIAs into a single category, with disregard to the various subgroupings of this large ethnic group.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Nursing, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kuramoto
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Louie
mesh_terms: D001213:Asian / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002321:Career Choice; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010139:Pacific Islands / Q000208:ethnology; D016746:Transcultural Nursing; D014481:United States