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Army Nurse Finds Purpose in Caring for America’s Heroes
As I cared for this young marine, I realized that I was not just a nurse, but a caregiver for real-life American heroes.” ...
Business Wire6d
Four CHLA Units Receive Beacon Healthcare Awards from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) announced this week that four inpatient care units recently received 2024 Beacon Awards for Excellence from the American ...
Amsterdam News12d
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first nurse to break the U.S. Army color barrier
Each day, as we have learned, brings new information about another first for Black Americans. It is something that may go on ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston27d
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegrated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...
CBS News4d
U.S. Army bars transgender people from enlisting, ends gender-affirming care services
The U.S. Army will no longer allow transgender people to enlist, and will stop providing gender-affirming care for service members ... and currently fill critical roles in every branch and ...
The New York Times25d
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 104, Dies; Army Nurse Broke a Color Barrier
Her great-niece Gilda Leftenant confirmed the death, in a nursing facility. Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps ... when a Black woman under her care went into labor prematurely ...
Army Times28d
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died Jan. 8. Here, an American flag is presented to Leftenant-Colon ...