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Ernest Grant is an American nurse and educator living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. [1] In 2018, he began serving as the 36th president of the American Nurses Association (ANA). Notably, he is the first male to serve in this position. [2] [3] One of his goals has been to encourage diversity in nursing.
The American Nurses Association ( ANA) is a 501 (c) (6) professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911. [ 3] It is based in Silver Spring, Maryland [ 4] and Jennifer Mensik Kennedy [ 2] is the current president.
At the American Nurses Association (ANA) Convention in 1970, 200 African-American nurses proposed the formation of the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA). After the convention, several nurses met at Doctor Mary Harper's home in Cleveland, Ohio to discuss the formation of an organization. The group was organized in December 1971.
American Nurses Association Hall of Fame. Mary Lewis Wyche (February 26, 1858 – August 22, 1936) was an American nurse. She was an advocate of regulation of nursing practice and standards in North Carolina and is considered by many people to be the pioneer of organized nursing in North Carolina. Wyche created a successful objective in ...
There is longevity as a coach, and then there is Anson Dorrance. The 73-year-old, who spent 45 seasons coaching the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC) Tar Heels women’s soccer team ...
Nursing ethics. Nursing ethics is a branch of applied ethics that concerns itself with activities in the field of nursing. Nursing ethics shares many principles with medical ethics, such as beneficence, non-maleficence and respect for autonomy. It can be distinguished by its emphasis on relationships, human dignity and collaborative care.
Anna "Annie" Julia Haywood was born into slavery in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1858.She and her mother, Hannah Stanley Haywood, were enslaved by George Washington Haywood (1802–1890), one of the sons of North Carolina's longest-serving state Treasurer John Haywood, who helped found the University of North Carolina, but whose estate later was forced to repay missing funds.
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a certification body for nursing board certification and the largest certification body for advanced practice registered nurses in the United States, [ 1] as of 2011 certifying over 75,000 APRNs, including nurse practitioners and clinical ...