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Key Takeaways
– Latino communities face a quiet health emergency marked by rising suicide risk, increasing overdose deaths, and a documented rise in anti-Latino hate and discrimination.
– Latino workers make up roughly 18 percent of the U.S. healthcare workforce, meaning the climate of fear reaches into the hospital from both sides of the bedside.
– Nurses’ proximity and trusted role give them a unique responsibility to recognize how discrimination and fear shape health, and to lead the response.