Black Penn Nursing Facts
Name a Black Penn Nursing Faculty member.
Who are J. Margo Brooks Carthon, Sharon Irving, etc.
Name one previous board member.
Who are Salvador, Liz, Karen, etc.
This longterm supporter of MNO serves as a faculty advisor to Community Champions at Penn.
Who is Monique Howard?
This HBCU currently holds the #1 rank in the country.
What is Spelman College?
This historical Black figure wrote the “I Have a Dream speech”
Who is Martin Luther King?
True of False: The school of nursing formally was known as the “Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s Nurse Training School”.
What is True?
MNO has had an internal chair board position for this amount of years.
What is 2 years?
Sandra Lindsay, an RN at Northwell Health in NY, was the first person in the US to receive this FDA approved vaccine in 2020.
What is the COVID-19 vaccine?
The Freedmen’s Hospital School of Nursing is the former name of this prominent HBCU based in Washington DC.
What is Howard University?
Who is Barack Obama?
The first Black person attended nursing school at Penn in this century.
What is the 19th century?
MNO was first established at Penn in this year.
When is 2001?
Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston was the first to direct the Bureau of Primary Health Care within the US Department of Health and Human Services. She focused her research on this disease that 1 in 13 Black babies have the trait for.
What is Sickle Cell Disease?
Name an HBCU that has a BSN program.
What is Howard, NCAT, Hampton, Lincoln, Bowie State, Delaware State, etc.
Black History Month started in this year.
What is 1976?
Sharon Irving, a longstanding faculty member at Penn nursing specializes in this field of Nursing
What is Pediatrics?
We hosted our first annual Red and White fundraising gala in this year.
When is 2022?
During the Civil War, this famous abolitionist worked as a nurse and spy for the Union Army. A common nickname for this individual is Moses, as she led many slaves to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This study that took place in Alabama between 1932 - 1947 granted medical care to individuals they perceived to have “bad blood”.
Who is known as “The Father of Black History”
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This Penn alum was the first Black male to receive a PhD in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as the current president of the National Black Nursing Association (NBNA)
Who is Sheldon Fields?
What was Penn MNO’s first name ever?
What is Students of Color Nursing Organization (SCNO)?
This woman was the first African-American to earn a professional nursing license in the United States. She also went on to co-found the National Association of Colored Graduate Nursing (NACGN).
Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney?
This university was the first HBCU to establish a Bachelor of Science Nursing Degree program in 1948.
What is Tuskegee University?
Who was the first African American woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, and what was one of her most famous works?
Who is Toni Morrison? What is Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, etc.