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National
Black Nurses Association, Inc.
8630 Fenton Street, Suite 330, Silver Spring, MD 20910
· Phone: (301) 589-3200 · Fax: (301)
589-3223 |
NBNA Members
Featured in Aetna African American History Calendar
For Immediate Release
December 17, 2002 |
Contact: Millicent
Gorham
301.589.3200 |
The Aetna Foundation launched
its 2003 African American History Calendar featuring African
American nurses, most who are members of the National Black
Nurses Association. "The Calendar recognizes outstanding
professional contributions of NBNA nurse leaders who have
changed the face of all aspects of professional nursing",
stated Dr. Hilda Richards, NBNA President.
"The
2003 calendar recognizes the vital contributions of African
American nurses who routinely save lives, establish critical
health care programs and work toward eliminating disparities
in our health care system, said Peggy J. Garrity, Corporate
Communications, Aetna.
The calendar features:
- Dr. M. Elizabeth Carnegie, author
of the award-winning book "The Path We Treat: Blacks
in Nursing Worldwide, 1854 -1994; Living Legend awardee
by the American Academy of Nursing; and past dean and
professor of the School of Nursing, Florida A&M
University, Chevy Chase, MD
- Dr. Betty Smith Williams, NBNA Immediate
Past President and President of the National Coalition
of Ethnic Minority Nurses Association, Los Angeles,
CA
- Marvel Davis, NBNA Historian and
Service Manager for Dual Diagnosis, Yale-New Haven Psychiatric
Hospital, New Haven, CT
- Dr. Linda Burnes Bolton, NBNA Past
President; Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer,
Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA
- Dr. Ora Strickland, Professor,
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University,
Atlanta, GA
- Jacquelin Holland, President, Columbus,
Ohio Black Nurses Association and Director of Screening
Services, Columbus Cancer Clinic, Columbus, OH
- Sherrie Hinz, Critical Care Fixed-wing
Nurse for Med Flight Air Ambulance and Critical Care
Nurse at Valley Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas,
NV
- Dr. May L. Wykle, Dean, Frances
Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, OH and the 2003 NBNA Life Time
Achievement Awarde.
- Frances Ashe-Goins is the Deputy
Director of the Division of Policy and Program Development,
Office of Women’s Health, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, Washington, D.C.
- Dr. Dorothy Powell, Associate Dean
for Nursing, College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied
Health Sciences, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
For the first time, the Calendar
is available on-line on January 2, 2003 at www.aetna.com/diversity/aahcalendar/2003/index.html,
featuring historical and personal information in greater
detail. 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.”
Click
here to view the calendar cover
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