Black Nurses Week

12/05/2025

✨Welcome to Nursing Black man✨

His story is trending and it is proof that you do not have to be a product of your upbringing. 💛🖤
When a Black man chooses nursing, it isn’t just a career choice… it’s a statistic shattered, a cycle broken, and a legacy rewritten.

📊 Black men make up less than 3% of the entire nursing workforce.
📊 Of all male nurses in the U.S., only about 11% are Black men.
📊 In nursing school enrollment, Black men remain one of the most underrepresented groups in healthcare.

So when his story goes viral, it’s because people feel that shift.
Every Black man who enters this field is expanding what’s possible for himself, for his family, and for the profession.

And now he has job offers in both the Emergency Department and Labor & Delivery… but his long-term goal is to become a CRNA.

Which specialty should he choose to set him up for success?
Drop your recommendation below ⬇️

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12/05/2025

Can we pleaseeeee leave these 3️⃣ things in 2025??

1️⃣ Asking LVNs/LPNs when they are going to go back to school to become a RN😏

2️⃣ Asking ADN and BSN prepared RNs when they are going back to get their NP🙄

3️⃣ Glorifying entrepreneurship as if it is easy & the answer to ever problem😣

Am I asking for too much?

12/04/2025

Update: Remember the viral video of the Texas mother in active labor, crying in a wheelchair while being told to fill out paperwork? That moment sparked national outrage and on Tuesday (12/2/2025), Dallas Regional Medical Hospital in Mesquite, TX released a statement saying the nurse involved is “no longer employed” and that her actions “did not reflect our values or uphold our standards.”

To be clear, we don’t know if she resigned or if she was terminated.

Dallas Regional Medical Center now says staff will undergo new training on recognizing imminent delivery, empathy, compassionate care, and bias awareness.

This should not require a viral video. Black women deserve to be believed, protected, and cared for the first time they speak.

12/02/2025

🌟Black Nursing Excellence Spotlight🌟

“Black nursing excellence means going above and beyond to pave the way for our future professional black kings and queens. I am a first generation Nigerian and my parents came to this country with nothing but a dream and perseverance. They paved the way for me and now I’m doing the same for my children.”

This is how Black mothers deserve to be cared for🖤

11/27/2025

The Wells Act was introduced because a video went viral of a Black woman in active labor was sent home.
Eight minutes later, Mercedes Wells gave birth on the side of the road.

This Act demands that hospitals create SAFE DISCHARGE LABOR PLANS so no patient experiencing labor signs gets pushed out the door without proper evaluation, provider oversight, or return precautions.

It also requires racial bias training, documented accountability, and physician involvement before discharging someone who could be in labor.

This isn’t just legislation.
This is patient safety.
This is maternal justice.
This is the direct result of not listening, and not believing when Black women speak.

Nurses, this is why policy matters.
Because what happens in Congress impacts what happens at the bedside.

🗣️ Tell me in the comments:

If passed, will this help improve Black maternal mortality rates?

11/26/2025

The idea that lowering federal loan limits will make tuition drop isn’t actually supported by history or economics.

People repeat it because it sounds logical if students can’t borrow as much, colleges will have to charge less. But that’s not how colleges operate.

The Bennett Hypothesis shows that colleges don’t base tuition on what students can afford, they base it on how much funding is available.

When aid ⬆️, tuition often ⬆️. But when federal aid is restricted, tuition ❌does not fall.

Instead, schools shift the cost to students in other ways such as private loans, higher fees, “professional program” surcharges, or simply fewer students being able to enroll.

So the belief that loan limits = lower tuition is a misconception.

The Bennett Hypothesis tells us:
Restricting access to federal aid doesn’t make schools less expensive. It just makes education less accessible.

💭What are your thoughts?

11/26/2025

They didn’t recognize us then.
So we’re building something they can’t ignore.

The City of Los Angeles has officially recognized Black Nurses Week with both a Certificate of Recognition and an Adopted Resolution, placing our contributions into the city’s historical record.

This is not luck.
This is strategy.
This is restoration.

For the nurses who served without credit.
For the healers history forgot.
For the ancestors who practiced nursing before nursing had a title, this moment carries your names too.

We are not just being honored.
We are being documented.
Registered.
Recorded.

🖋️ A proclamation is proclaimed.
📜 A resolution is passed into record.
📘 A certificate of recognition honors our impact.

And this is only the beginning. Let them know, I’m coming for everything our ancestors and Black nursing trailblazers were denied!

11/25/2025

The only “plan” that is needed is for staff to ❌stop❌ being racist.
To believe Black women the first time they speak.
To stop gaslighting Black women’s pain.
To stop dismissing Black women’s symptoms until it becomes an emergency or result in death.

Black women are not asking for extra.
We are asking for basic human care, to be heard, treated, and believed.

That’s the plan. Start there‼️

The legislation seeks to stop Black women from suffering during and after childbirth and hold hospitals accountable according to bill language obtained exclusively by NBC News.
nbcnews.app.link/QsNz51kuAYb

11/25/2025

✍🏾If you support nurses, you can sign the petition.

✍🏾If you know the healthcare system will crumble without nurses, you can sign the petition.

✍🏾Nurses, we need to sign the petition

👉🏾Ya’ll don’t want us to walk out for 24hrs so you better do something to help because 130,000 signatures is not enough. More signatures are needed.