The ‘Black Angels’ cared for tuberculosis patients when no one else would
In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...
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I Was Told I’d Never Be Great—Now I’m Making History in Nursing
Dr. Phyllis Morgan’s journey into nursing was anything but conventional. Now she's making history as the first PhD Nursing ...
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Five years later: Nurses speak on surviving the COVID-19 pandemic
“I first realized I was living through a pandemic ... Like Hall, Trilby Barnes-Green, a board member of the National Black Nurses Association NBNA, had to step away from the career she had ...
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The Trailblazing Nurses Who Kept the Tuskegee Airmen Flying
First, men -- no matter their race -- were unable to join the Army as nurses. (That prohibition lasted until 1955.) Second, the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) was dragging its feet on accepting Black women.
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Nurse saves life mid-flight
Harris, who became the first Black nurse inducted into the Academy of Emergency Nurses in 2023, put her training to use during a flight home from a nursing conference in Louisville earlier this month.
Boston's Dimock Center announces employee layoffs, hiring freeze
These employees were primarily in administrative and operational roles, the Dimock Center said in a statement. The layoffs ...
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Women in Medicine: A List of Pioneers
Historically, women have faced barriers to entering the field of medicine, being relegated to roles as caregivers rather than recognized as physicians and surgeons. Before 1847, US medical schools ...