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Lurline's father William Vassall launched a campaign to open a school for black nurses. [1] [3] In response, Hylan's administration supported the creation of the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing. [1] The school opened on January 3, 1923, with a class of twenty black women. [1] It was a two and a half year program. [1]
The Lincoln School School for Nurses was the first (and only) nursing school for African-American women in New York City, [1] until the municipally funded Harlem Hospital School of Nursing was established in 1923. [3] The Lincoln School School for Nurses' first graduating class was in 1900, with a total of six graduates. [1]
The Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing (HBSON) is the nursing school of Hunter College, a public university that is a constituent organization of the City University of New York (CUNY). It is located on the Brookdale Campus, at East 25th Street and 1st Avenue in Kips Bay, near Bellevue Hospital. The school is the flagship nursing program for ...
New York: New York City - Nurses in New York are typically paid $46,150 more than the metro's median income. - Median annual wage for nurses: $103,540 (#1 overall)
Jessie Sleet Scales (1865–1956) was the first African-American public health nurse in the United States. [1] [2] Scales contributed to the development and growth of public health nursing in New York City and is considered by many to be a health nurse pioneer. [3]
Black Cross Nurses (officially the Universal African Black Cross Nurses) is an international organization of nurses which was founded in 1920, based upon the model of the Red Cross. The organization was the women's auxiliary of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League and was established to provide health ...
Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown (October 10, 1927 – August 5, 2011) [1] [2] was a nurse and educator who served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1983. In 1979, she became the first Black female general in the United States Army and the first Black chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps. [3]
Alma Vessells John (September 27, 1906 – April 8, 1986) was an American nurse, newsletter writer, radio and television personality, and civil rights activist. Born in Philadelphia in 1906, she moved to New York to take nursing classes after graduating from high school.