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Alvionna Brewster is the driving force behind the Black Nurse Entrepreneurs (BNE) group, a community dedicated to supporting African-American nurses. Founded in 2015, BNE has grown to include over ...
Black Nurse Entrepreneurs (BNE), founded by visionary nurse entrepreneur Alvionna Brewster, MSN-Ed, RN, in 2015, has recently grown its dynamic community to more than 23,000 African American ...
While the interest for health -related careers among Blacks and African Americans in the U.S. has increased in recent years, with the Association of American Medical Colleges reporting 10.5% of ...
The American Nurses Foundation grant of $339,000 awarded to Southern University and A&M College in April has significantly impacted its program. The HBCU’s School of Nursing in Baton Rouge ...
" African American nurses account for 11% of the registered nurse workforce in the United States and even less than that are African American men. Southern University School of Nursing (SUSON) is ...
The College of Nursing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis will hold its fourth annual African-American Nursing History Conference from 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11 at the Sheraton ...
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 ...
By Jennifer Lollar University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing alumna Lindsey Harris, DNP, CRNP, FNP-BC, is making history as the first African American president of the Alabama State Nurses ...
Hine has also served as the president of both the Organization of American Historians (2001-2002) and the Southern Historical Association (2002-2003).In 2006, she was inducted into the American ...
Dr. Danita Potter, a professor and the Dean of Nursing, highlights the critical need for this program, stating, “There were not a lot of African American nurses at all, particularly in the South.