{"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\/pt\/news\/celebrating-black-history-month-joella-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrando o M\u00eas da Hist\u00f3ria Negra: Joella Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ela observava o seu tio Mose, que tinha diabetes, a ferver as seringas que usava para as suas injec\u00e7\u00f5es di\u00e1rias de insulina. \"Eu queria ajud\u00e1-lo\", recorda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O seu tio Mose faleceu devido a complica\u00e7\u00f5es da doen\u00e7a quando tinha apenas 51 anos, mas o facto de ter ajudado a cuidar dele levou Joella \u00e0 carreira de enfermagem que adora h\u00e1 38 anos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ele inspirou-me a tornar-me enfermeira\", disse Joella, que agora vive com o marido em West Wareham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joella, que cresceu com tr\u00eas irm\u00e3os, obteve a sua licenciatura em enfermagem na Universidade de Indiana, com uma comiss\u00e3o direta no Corpo de Enfermeiras do Ex\u00e9rcito e serviu o nosso pa\u00eds durante 10 anos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Esteve baseada em Fort Sam Houston, no Texas, Fort Jackson, na Carolina do Sul, e Fort Irwin, na Calif\u00f3rnia. Tamb\u00e9m esteve estacionada durante algum tempo em Fairbanks, AK, e passou quatro anos de servi\u00e7o na Alemanha antes de deixar o ex\u00e9rcito para trabalhar no Northside Hospital em Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Foi uma grande mudan\u00e7a passar do servi\u00e7o ativo para a enfermagem civil\", disse ela, mas acabou por lev\u00e1-la a Hospital St. Luke's<\/a> em New Bedford, onde est\u00e1 h\u00e1 21 anos. Trabalha na Unidade Centrada na Fam\u00edlia, cuidando das novas m\u00e3es e dos seus beb\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"H\u00e1 38 anos que adoro a minha carreira\", acrescentou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sendo uma mulher de cor, disse que tamb\u00e9m testemunhou o preconceito que existe na sua \u00e1rea e que afecta tanto os doentes como os profissionais de sa\u00fade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quando estava a trabalhar na Ge\u00f3rgia, testemunhou um doente sob os cuidados de uma enfermeira que tamb\u00e9m era de cor. O doente \"pediu outra enfermeira porque as m\u00e3os da enfermeira eram demasiado pretas\", disse. \"O M\u00eas da Hist\u00f3ria Negra pode ser triste para mim. A hist\u00f3ria negra \u00e9 a hist\u00f3ria americana. O facto de se ser instru\u00eddo n\u00e3o nos protege da ignor\u00e2ncia e da discrimina\u00e7\u00e3o\", afirmou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conhecer a hist\u00f3ria da medicina americana significa conhecer as experi\u00eancias brutais efectuadas em pacientes negros, incluindo procedimentos cir\u00fargicos realizados sem anestesia porque um conhecido ginecologista sulista \"acreditava que as mulheres negras n\u00e3o sentem dor\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No entanto, n\u00e3o foi esse o caso na sua carreira na Southcoast Health, onde disse que \"as pessoas s\u00e3o muito profissionais e n\u00e3o conhe\u00e7o nenhum exemplo de preconceito racial\" no trabalho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke's que teve de ser internada para reabilita\u00e7\u00e3o durante v\u00e1rias semanas, mantendo-a afastada do seu beb\u00e9, que permaneceu na Unidade Centrada na Fam\u00edlia. As enfermeiras fizeram um livro de mem\u00f3rias para a nova m\u00e3e e registaram todos os primeiros acontecimentos da vida da crian\u00e7a, para que a m\u00e3e n\u00e3o perdesse nada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke's. \"Aquela m\u00e3e ficou muito agradecida\" pelo cuidado pessoal e profundo das enfermeiras do St. Os profissionais de sa\u00fade, disse, devem prestar os melhores cuidados, independentemente da ra\u00e7a, cor ou situa\u00e7\u00e3o econ\u00f3mica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A equidade na sa\u00fade significa que existe uma norma para toda a gente\", afirmou. \"Todos merecem ser tratados com dignidade\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Para saber mais sobre a forma como a Southcoast Health est\u00e1 a dar destaque \u00e0 equidade na sa\u00fade durante o M\u00eas da Hist\u00f3ria Negra, visite Comemorando o M\u00eas da Hist\u00f3ria 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=\"pt_PT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Celebrating Black History Month: Joella Cruz - 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