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NBNA 31^st Annual Institute and Conference
in the BIG EASY, New Orleans!!!

The National Black Nurses Association will host its 31st Annual Institute and Conference in at the New Orleans Marriott, July 30 - August 3, 2003. The theme of the Conference is "Emerging Health Threats: Nursing Solutions in a New Era."

Ronald A. Williams, President, Aetna, has been invited to be the keynote speaker on Thursday, July 31, 2003 at the evening Opening Ceremony of the Conference. Dr. May L. Wykle, Dean, Francis Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio is the Ending Session Keynote Speaker and the NBNA Life Time Achievement Awardee for 2003. Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee, Dean, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and Vice President of Health Science and Medical Affairs, New York Institute of Technology is the 2003 NBNA Trailblazer Awardee.

NBNA is expecting record attendance of nurses and student nurses to join us in one of our Nation's premiere conference destinations. More than 125 exhibitors will showcase their products and services in a variety of industries, including health care institutions, schools and colleges of nursing, telecommunications, automobile, equipment and technological advances.

Five 4 hours intensive continuing education Institutes and concurrent workshops are planned, providing evidence based research and state of the art information in the areas of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, women's health and children's health. A plenary session, sponsored by the National Black Nurses Foundation and funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, will offer solutions to the nursing shortage. A town hall meeting will be held on Saturday, August 2, 2003, in New Orleans, hosted by the 7th Quadrennial Black Congress on Health, Law and Economics on the theme of "Making Democracy Work for All of Us".

The National Black Nurses Association represents 150,000 African American nurses from the USA, Eastern Caribbean and Africa, with 75 chartered chapters nationwide. The NBNA mission is to provide a forum for collective action by African American nurses to "investigate, define and determine what the health care needs of African Americans are and to implement change to make available to African Americans and other minorities health care commensurate with that of the larger society."

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