{"id":18035,"date":"2023-02-21T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/celebrating-black-history-month-joella-cruz\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T20:03:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:03:06","slug":"celebrating-black-history-month-joella-cruz","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/news\/celebrating-black-history-month-joella-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebraci\u00f3n del Mes de la Historia Negra: Joella Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ve\u00eda a su t\u00edo Mose, diab\u00e9tico, hervir las jeringuillas que utilizaba para sus inyecciones diarias de insulina. \"Quer\u00eda ayudarle\", recuerda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Su t\u00edo Mose falleci\u00f3 por complicaciones de la enfermedad cuando s\u00f3lo ten\u00eda 51 a\u00f1os, pero ayudar a cuidarle condujo a Joella a la carrera de enfermer\u00eda que ama desde hace 38 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Me inspir\u00f3 para ser enfermera\", dice Joella, que ahora vive con su marido en West Wareham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joella, creci\u00f3 con tres hermanos, se licenci\u00f3 en enfermer\u00eda por la Universidad de Indiana, con un nombramiento directo en el Cuerpo de Enfermer\u00eda del Ej\u00e9rcito y sirvi\u00f3 a nuestro pa\u00eds durante 10 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estuvo destinada en Fort Sam Houston (Texas), Fort Jackson (Carolina del Sur) y Fort Irwin (California). Tambi\u00e9n estuvo destinada durante un tiempo en Fairbanks, Alaska, y pas\u00f3 cuatro a\u00f1os de servicio en Alemania antes de dejar el ej\u00e9rcito para trabajar en el Northside Hospital de Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fue un gran cambio pasar del servicio activo a la enfermer\u00eda civil\", dijo, pero al final la llev\u00f3 a Hospital St. Luke<\/a> en New Bedford, donde lleva 21 a\u00f1os. Trabaja en la Unidad Centrada en la Familia, atendiendo a las nuevas madres y a sus beb\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Llevo 38 a\u00f1os amando mi carrera\", a\u00f1adi\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Como mujer de color, tambi\u00e9n ha sido testigo de los prejuicios que existen en su campo, y que afectan tanto a los pacientes como a los profesionales m\u00e9dicos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mientras trabajaba en Georgia, fue testigo de c\u00f3mo un paciente era atendido por una enfermera que tambi\u00e9n era una mujer de color. El paciente \"pidi\u00f3 otra enfermera porque las manos de la enfermera eran demasiado negras\", dijo. \"El Mes de la Historia Negra puede ser triste para m\u00ed. La historia negra es la historia de Estados Unidos. Ni siquiera ser culto te protege de la ignorancia y la discriminaci\u00f3n\", afirm\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conocer la historia de la medicina estadounidense significa saber de los brutales experimentos realizados con pacientes negros, incluidas intervenciones quir\u00fargicas realizadas sin anestesia porque un conocido ginec\u00f3logo sure\u00f1o \"cre\u00eda que las mujeres negras no sent\u00edan dolor\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sin embargo, ese no ha sido el caso en su carrera en Southcoast Health, donde dijo que \"la gente es muy profesional, y no conozco ning\u00fan ejemplo de prejuicios raciales\" en el trabajo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Record\u00f3 a una madre del St. Luke's que tuvo que ser ingresada para rehabilitaci\u00f3n durante varias semanas, lo que la mantuvo alejada de su beb\u00e9, que permaneci\u00f3 en la Unidad Centrada en la Familia. Las enfermeras hicieron un libro de recuerdos para la madre y registraron todos los primeros acontecimientos de la vida del ni\u00f1o para que la madre no se perdiera nada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Esa madre estaba muy agradecida\" por la profunda atenci\u00f3n personal de esas enfermeras del St. Luke's. Los profesionales m\u00e9dicos, dijo, deben proporcionar la mejor atenci\u00f3n independientemente de la raza, el color o la situaci\u00f3n econ\u00f3mica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Equidad sanitaria significa que hay una norma para todos\", dijo. \"Todos merecen ser tratados con dignidad\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Para saber m\u00e1s sobre c\u00f3mo Southcoast Health hace brillar la equidad sanitaria durante el Mes de la Historia Negra, visite Celebraci\u00f3n del Mes de la Historia Negra | Southcoast Health<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4484,"template":"","categories":[1230],"class_list":["post-18035","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-people"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCelebrating Black History Month: Joella Cruz - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cHealth equity means there is one standard for everybody,\u201d she said. \u201cThey all deserve to be treated with dignity.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/celebrating-black-history-month-joella-cruz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Celebrating Black History Month: Joella Cruz - 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