The deplorable actions of a NICU nurse from Midlothian, Virginia, against Black infants may have racist undertones. Erin Strotman, a nurse at Virginia’s Henrico Doctors’ Hospital’s neonatal ...

On Sunday (Jan. 5), The Washington Post reported that registered nurse Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman was arrested in connection with the abuse of several Black babies at a Virgina medical center.

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, “the breakdown of RN population in 2022 was 80 percent White or Caucasian; 7.4 percent Asian” and “6.3 percent Black or African ...

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 it's true a nurse was arrested and charged for one of the attacks, however, not all the victims were Black infants. A Jan. 7, 2025, news release from police in Henrico County, Virginia ...

As we celebrate Black History Month, we're looking at the efforts to increase representation in the healthcare field, specifically nursing. "I can tell them the foundation has been laid for a ...

NBNA represents over 308,000 African American registered nurses students and retired nurses from over 100 charted chapters in ...

African American medical pioneers—like Charles Drew, Mary Mahoney, and James McNune Smith—achieved major firsts for Black people and improved health care.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has died at age 104.

Breastfeeding African American Babies. Clip: Season 10 Episode 19 | 6m 9s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Fewer black infants are ever breast fed compared to Asian, white or Hispanic infants.

“If I’m telling you that black babies were tortured by a white nurse and your response is, why are you making this about race? I want you to understand you’re part of the problem,” she stated.

A group of nine Black women nurses and certified nursing assistants at Florala Health and Rehabilitation in Covington County, AL, has allegedly been called “ugly” and ridiculed for their ...