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Nia Monroe is a 20-year-old African American woman who lives in a mid-sized city in the Midwestern United States. She, her mother, and her 3 younger siblings live in a large public housing community consisting of 700 individual units. Despite many obstacles, Nia graduated in the top of her class in high school and was a student athlete. She was awarded a full scholarship to the public university in her city where she planned to study nursing, as the first person in her family to attend college.
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Shambley-Ebron, D. (2018). Case Study: A Young African American Woman with Lupus. In: Douglas, M., Pacquiao, D., Purnell, L. (eds) Global Applications of Culturally Competent Health Care: Guidelines for Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69332-3_12
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