This is a photo of #VirginiaAllen was shot by at @DNPsofColor conference. Just days prior she had been really ill and we all were worried about her ability to attend. cinematicimageryfilms.com
A group of us were preparing for plan B and we had back up plans in place. But but I knew in my soul and I could feel the spirit of the ancestors rallying around her to get there

Lawd, Ms #VirginiaAllen got me in tears today. I called to check in on her & she shared that @dnpsofcolor conference was literally the highlight of her entire life. She recounted all the special encounters she had during the conference weekend in vivid detail, reliving the delight over and over again with each snippet she recalled

Me and Ms. #VirginiaAllen (92 years old) the last surviving Black Angel, a group of nurses recruited from the South, that took care of patients at the height of the #tuberculosis pandemic in #StatenIsland when all the White #nurses refused to continue caring for those patients. We had the honor of having an intimate conversation with her at DNPs of Color conference. She is absolutely amazing!

For each #impostersyndrome doubt I have being #faculty I have double the amount of validation from my students that I belong in the space I am in. I was meeting w/a DNPadvisee discussing their PICO question. Toward the end she shares that she has to build in her schedule time to do her hair in prep for clinical in the morning. I held space for her in that moment bc I understood what she meant in so many words.

@DNPsofColor is focused on amplifying the voices of DNP prepared nurses of color contributions of excellence to nursing through leadership, clinical practice, research, academia, diversity/anti racism We are the only organization that is focused on this growing body of professionals @DNPsofColor

Im reading this today: Practical and philosophical considerations in choosing the DNP or PhD ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Nursing has a hx of developing diff doctorates d/t marginalization & non acceptance of nursing as a science

"nursing discourse needs to allow multiple perspectives that reflect the complexity of clinical nursing practice..." Nursing research undertaken within thestrict evidence-based logic oversimplifies the complexityof nursing practice in such a way as to reduce it to quan-titatively measurable and observable phenomena.

The impact of Whiteness on the education of nurses sciencedirect.com/science/articl… racial segregation, not a natural phenomenon, but a socially constructed one.self-segregating from POC, enabled White nurses, consciously or unconsciously, to establish a profession void of any input from NOC (Andrews, 2003). Thus, creating a field built upon White values.