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SUMMARY:National Nurses Week — Honoring Black\, Caribbean & African Nursi
 ng Lineage
DESCRIPTION:National Nurses Week (May 6–12) closes on May 12\, the birthd
 ay of Florence Nightingale\, but the deeper lineage Per-Ankh honors is th
 e Black\, Caribbean\, and African nursing tradition: Mary Eliza Mahoney (
 the first Black professionally trained nurse in the U.S.\, New England Ho
 spital for Women and Children\, 1879)\; Adah Belle Thoms\, who fought to 
 integrate the U.S. Army Nurse Corps\; Estelle Massey Osborne\, the first 
 Black instructor at a U.S. nursing school\; and the National Association 
 of Colored Graduate Nurses\, founded in 1908 to organize Black nurses exc
 luded from the American Nurses Association until 1951. This week also hon
 ors Caribbean nurse organizers who staffed the British and U.S. health sy
 stems through the Windrush generation\, and African nurse-midwives whose 
 community-based practice predates and outlasts colonial medicine. Healing
  in the African tradition has always been relational\, ethical\, and comm
 unal — an applied form of Ma'at.\nRegion: Global\, Global Diaspora\nSourc
 e: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Eliza_Mahoney\nMore: https://www.pe
 rankharchive.com/events/347770ba-96db-4719-af5e-6f45de88baf3
LOCATION:Global\, Global Diaspora
URL:https://www.perankharchive.com/events/347770ba-96db-4719-af5e-6f45de8
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CATEGORIES:nurses,nursing,health,medicine,mary-eliza-mahoney,adah-belle-t
 homs,estelle-massey-osborne,nacgn,caribbean,africa,windrush,care-work,maa
 t
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