National Nurses United says African American nurses make up 12% of the workforce in the U.S. but account for 18% of deaths among nurses due to COVID-19.Denise Meyers, ...

When individuals think of nursing history, they typically envision nursing leaders such as Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix. Reverence to these founding mothers of modern nursing is ...

A new dean changed the UW nursing school’s discriminatory policy and the school graduated its first African-American nurse in 1949. The Mary Mahoney nurses have given more than 60 scholarships, ...

NBNA represents over 308,000 African American registered nurses students and retired nurses from over 100 charted chapters in 33 states, according to the NBNA president. "We are the voice of the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - The Baton Rouge General Hospital recognized 26 African American nurses from the 1950′s on the same halls where they were confined to. At that time African Americans were only ...

According to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Adah Belle Samuels Thoms graduated from the Lincoln School for Nursing in New York in 1905 and began working full-time at ...

She began her nursing career in 1966 as the first African-American nurse at Memorial Hospital of Southern Oklahoma, now known ...

Gertrude Theresa Hodges, the first African American Johns Hopkins School of Nursing graduate, died of stroke complications March 28 at her East Baltimore home. She was 88. Mrs. Hodges also headed ...

Akron General Cleveland Clinic honored a special nurse today for #NationalNursesWeek 🩺 … and get this, she was the 1ST African-American woman hired to the clinic, in the 1940s! 🩹 pic ...

The Civil War changed the social, economic, and political landscape for women from every walk of American life—perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of nursing.