Black nurses’ contributions to healthcare and to society as a whole have often been undervalued and hidden. As a result, many ...
The story of the Black nurses who stepped up to treat the tuberculosis epidemic in New York City at Sea View Hospital in Staten Island is dictated in Maria Smilios’ new book.
patients of color, and those who have been historically marginalized and disenfranchised," Dr. Fields said. About six percent of registered nurses are Black, according to the American Association ...
The hospital began recruiting Black nurses, particularly women from the South who were qualified nurses but unable to find meaningful employment due to segregation. In the following decades, these ...
The Colorado Council of Black Nurses Inc. Aerospace Nursing Department is continuing to research the best ways to provide healthcare to astronauts and others spending time in space.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, in an address from the floor of the House of Representatives, focused on the ...
because they didn't want the patients to wake up and see that I was a Black nurse, so I refused to do that,” Cook said. Cook went back to Denver to start working and eventually met the woman who ...