Please Respond to the below post. NSTRUCTIONS: All responses should be a minimum

Please Respond to the below post.
NSTRUCTIONS:
All responses should be a minimum of 300 words, scholarly written, APA formatted, and referenced. A minimum of 2 references less than five years old are required.
NOTE FOR CITATION:
Journal-title should be capitalized but not in all caps.
Your article title should be in sentence format. That means that only
the first letter of the title should be capitalized. The rest should be lowercase.
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The selected study in an academic journal discusses cancer statistics among the African American community in the United States while highlighting various healthcare disparities affecting this racial cohort. Giaquinto et al. (2022) postulate that the black population is the third largest ethnic group in the United States after Hispanics and primarily consists of African Americans whose ancestors were enslaved people in the country, immigrants of African descent, and Caribbean Americans. This community records the highest mortality for most cancers and other leading death instigators, such as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, than any other racial group in the United States. These disparities often arise from low socioeconomic status, which leads to a high incidence of cancer risk factors and reduced access to high-quality healthcare services due to a lack of insurance coverage among these individuals (Giaquinto et al., 2022). Besides, national statistics illustrate that approximately 19% of black people live below the poverty line affecting healthcare delivery (Giaquinto et al., 2022). Hence, African Americans experience healthcare disparities culminating in high cancer incidence and mortality.
The COVID-19 pandemic widened the gap between healthcare access and clinical prognoses in the African American community. Black people had a threefold risk of contracting and dying from respiratory conditions than Caucasians. Apart from the Covid-19 disease, Black Americans experienced disproportionate secondary repercussions such as employment loss, employment gaps, later-stage cancer diagnoses, treatment delays, and increased cancer mortality associated with pandemic-related care disruptions (Giaquinto et al., 2022). These insights highlight the need to support the African American community who encounter tremendous disparities affecting their health-seeking behaviors and increasing their risk of dying from cancer and other chronic illnesses.
Advanced Nurse Roles in Addressing this Disparity
Advanced practice nurses assume beneficial roles in addressing the healthcare disparities faced by the African American community, specifically the high cancer mortality rates. I believe advanced practice nurses can use various evidence-based interventions, including education, advocacy, high-quality practice, and research, to eliminate the healthcare discrepancies affecting Black people (Narayan, 2019). All nurses should advocate for practice change guided by ethical principles that address structural racism, which may affect the care delivered to African Americans. Nurses should lobby with relevant stakeholders, such as policymakers, to ensure African Americans have increased healthcare coverage and employment opportunities to enhance their health-seeking behavior. All nurses should focus on creating safe spaces where patients from all diversities can access high-quality and safe healthcare services.
Nurses should engage in a high-quality practice involving cultural competence when treating these people of color to mitigate any form of judgment or bias that may prevent them from reaching out when ill. Furthermore, nurses can educate these communities and relevant healthcare bodies on the existing disparities to call for policy-related change and healthcare improvement (Peek et al., 2021). Evidence-based practice and quality improvement measures such as mobilizing community partnership, increasing public health infrastructure, and encouraging cross-sector collaboration are imperative to foster inclusion for all racial groups, including Blacks, to mitigate related healthcare burdens (Peek et al., 2021). Nurses are essential in the effort to address disparities among minority populations.
Complete by 2/23 at 6pm