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To increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, the program provides stipends and scholarships, pre-entry preparation, and retention activities for minority nursing students, pre-nursing students, and students in elementary and secondary schools. [6]
Mary Starke Harper attended Tuskegee Institute and earned a diploma in nursing in 1941. [1] She later applied to several bachelor's programs in the late 1940s. The University of Alabama rejected Harper's application on the basis of her race [6] and she decided to attend the University of Minnesota instead, a school which at the time had never had a black woman graduate from their program.
Originally, the sorority's membership was limited to female Black nurses. [5] Members offered local health screenings, provided health education, raised funds to provide scholarships for nursing students, and provided those in need within their communities with clothing, food, and money. [10]
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Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.
The Foundation of the National Student Nurses' Association has distributed over $4,000,000 in undergraduate nursing scholarships. The NSNA's official publication is the Imprint . [ 2 ] NSNA's mission is to mentor students preparing for initial licensure as registered nurses, and to convey the standards, ethics, and skills that students will ...