Bjoring Nursing History Center
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Tune in tomorrow at 12 pm (ET) for a fabulous nursing history forum - "Dynamics of Prejudice: Antiracist Nursing Education, 1968-1978" with Cory Ellen Gatrall, PhD, MFA, RN. https://t.co/XrDCTtlO7p
#histnursing #histmed #histhealth
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Tune in tomorrow at 12 p.m. (ET ) for a fascinating nursing history forum presented by Andre Rosario: "Bait, Switch, and Sue: Filipino Nurses’ Solidarity Against Exploitative International Recruitment Practices, 2005-2009" Zoom details:
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The Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry and the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science invite submissions for papers in the history of science, medicine, and nursing for a joint conference in March 2025. Visit https://t.co/UZVV6ei64Q for details!
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Tune in at noon today for "Unearthing Black Midwifery Stories in Virginia," a talk by Linda Janet Holmes, author of "Safe in a Midwife's Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South." https://t.co/r7Gblmw0k0
#histnursing #histmed #histhealth
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Don't miss our lunchtime nursing history forum TOMORROW with Dr. Christine Peralta: " Neither the Colonizer Nor the Colonized: Thai Nursing Students in the Philippines and New England, 1920-1931." https://t.co/r7Gblmw0k0
#histnursing #hismed #histhealth
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Tune in at 12 p.m. today for a thought-provoking talk by historian Dr. Karissa Haugeberg - "Barbara Fassbinder, Nursing, and AIDS in the U.S., 1986-1991." https://t.co/r7Gblmw0k0
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On this day in 1943, a group of Black women employed by UVA Hospital staged a walkout over wages. Today, we honor these early activists who challenged the institution's racial division of labor. https://t.co/3xZ0HixSlj
#histnursing #histmed #histhealth
nursing.virginia.edu
On Jan. 16, 1943, a group of Black women who occupied the bottom rung of the hospital's paid staff decided they'd had enough.
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Join us for a stimulating noontime talk by Angela Xia on "Narrating a Life of Care: Hindsight and Challenges of Interpretation in the Study of Religion and Health." https://t.co/r7Gblmw0k0
#histnursing, #histmed, #histhealth
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Join us tomorrow at 12 p.m. (ET) for Jess Dillard-Wright's virtual talk: "Gay Nurses/Straight Health Care: Toward a Queer History of Nursing" Zoom info: https://t.co/r7Gblmwy9y
#histnursing; #histmed; #histhealth
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An ampule from her first injection. Her first piece of fan mail. Our September flashback is about Bernice White, a 1930s-era nurse who kept a scrapbook of "firsts." Share with us YOUR firsts; email link in the story. https://t.co/J1F2tN4mRM
#histnursing #histmed #histhealth
nursing.virginia.edu
Bernice White was a Red Cross nurse in the 1930s and 40s who kept a scrapbook filled with mementos from her early nursing career.
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Get your lunchtime sustenance today by tuning in at 12 p.m. (ET) for our Zoom talk with UVA historian Guian McKee on his new book, Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care. https://t.co/r7Gblmw0k0
#histnursing #histmed #histhealth
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For @mghihp nursing dean &LGBTQ+ advocate Ken White, the best career mistake he ever made was using the wrong pronoun. White - now American Academy of Nursing president - worked to forge acceptance. Today's @BjoringCenter #flashbackfriday tells his story.
nursing.virginia.edu
For Pride Month, the Bjoring Center celebrates an early advocate for LGBTQ+ equity: nurse practitioner and palliative care champion Kenneth R. White.
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Attention, procrastinating scholars: The application deadline has been EXTENDED TO JUNE 25 for the Bjoring Center's Nurse Practitioner History Research Scholar Award: https://t.co/5ePAnwo9a1
#histmed #histnursing #histhealth
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Next time you're in a recorded #nursingsimulation, consider: video hasn't always been such a ubiquitous teaching tool. For that, we have #ChineseAmerican nurse Rita Chow to thank. @BjoringCenter's latest #FlashbackFriday, in honor of #AAPI month. https://t.co/xkDpRemh30
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The application deadline is fast approaching for the Nurse Practitioner History Research Scholar Award. Submissions are due by June 1: https://t.co/5ePAnwo9a1
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The search for traces of Rachael, an enslaved nurse and midwife at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, all but erased from the historical record. Today's #FlashbackFriday from the @BjoringCenter, w/ profound thanks to BSN student Faith Bush. #nursinghistory
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Don't miss historian Catherine Ceniza Choy's talk, "History and Memory of Filipino Nurses in U.S. Health-Care Delivery," at 12 p.m. (ET) TOMORROW on Zoom. https://t.co/r7Gblmwy9y
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The Movers & Makers' @WHYY special on the history of Mercy-Douglass Hospital featuring interviews from #PennNursing's Pat D’Antonio & doctoral graduate @HafeezaAnchrum can be watched anytime here: https://t.co/Q7aktj3yOZ.
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Movers & Makers Special on the history of Philadelphia hospitals founded by the Black community. From Frederick Douglass Hospital in 1895 and Mercy Hospital in 1907, to their merging in 1948, Black...
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In 1989, American historian & Black feminist scholar Darlene Clark Hine wrote Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession 1890-1950, one of the 1st books to explore the history of Black nurses & racism in nursing #histnursing #BlackHistoryMonth
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