The study found that nursing staffing was worse in high-Black-serving hospitals compared to medium- and low-Black-serving facilities. Researchers adjusted the data for unit type and found ...

It was early in her nursing career at the Clinton Infirmary where she broke the color line — became the first black registered nurse to be hired in East Feliciana Parish, she said. It was 1975 ...

The study is published in the journal Nursing Research. "It's particularly concerning because seven out of 10 Black patients are hospitalized in Black-serving hospitals, so there's really a ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 102, was the first Black woman to be commissioned into the regular U.S. Army Nursing Corps and the only woman ever elected as president of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc.