Dr. Ernest Green, First Male President of the American Nurses Association (LISTEN)

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Today, on National Nurses Day, GBN highlights Dr. Ernest Green, the first male and current president of the American Nurses Association.

To read about him, read on. To hear about him, press PLAY:

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Hey, this is Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of goodblacknews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Friday, May 6th, 2022, also known as National Nurses Day, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing.

Happy Nurses’ Day! It’s kind of ironic that Ernest Grant, the first male president of the American Nurses Association, is also a doctor… of nursing!

An internationally recognized burn care and safety expert, Dr. Grant holds a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The doctor took office in January 2019 after being elected to represent the four million nurses in the ANA, about 90 percent of whom are women.

To learn more about Ernest Grant, history of nursing as well as African American nurses, check out the links provided in today’s show notes and in the episodes full transcript posted on goodblacknews.org.

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Sources:

• https://www.nursingworld.org/ana/leadership-and-governance/board-of-directors/ana-president/
• https://nurse.org/articles/black-history-month-nursing-leaders/
• https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhhc/american-nursing-an-introduction-to-the-past/
• https://www.registerednursing.org/articles/african-american-nurses-making-history/
• https://www.chamberlain.edu/blog/a-celebration-of-10-famous-black-nurses-in-history
• https://www.nbna.org/history
• https://www.nbna.org/files/NBNA%20FALL%202019%20REVJAN07.pdf
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jan.14791
• https://aahc.nc.gov/resources/black-history-month-2021/black-history-month-2021-health-pioneers-interview-dr-ernest-j-grant
• https://youtu.be/zCnnciTWIjY (video interview with Ernest Grant)