Yes! The 2024 NBNA conference will be in San Francisco, July 23-28, 2024! The theme of this year’s conference is Advancing Health Care Across the Lifespan: Through Re-Imagining Nursing and Human Caring.
Dr. Sheldon Fields, current NBNA President, describes the notable significance of this event, and its location, in a recent message to NBNA members and conference attendees:
These are exciting times for the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) as we prepare for our 52nd Annual Institute and Conference. Please join us from Tuesday, July 23, 2024, to Sunday, July 28, 2024, at the Marriott Marquis hotel in picturesque, San Francisco, CA. As you know, earlier this year, after careful consideration, NBNA released a statement announcing its decision to move its 2024 conference out of Florida. Our primary reason for this move was our duty to ensure the safety and well-being of NBNA members, given the political and social climate in Florida and the recent racially motivated, hate-fueled murders of three innocent Black Americans in Jacksonville, FL.
Our conference committee and staff in the national office have been extremely busy planning a memorable conference where you can select educational offerings that meet your needs, engage in activities that promote career development, along with opportunities to network, fellowship, and celebrate with friends, and colleagues. Our corporate roundtable partners, sponsors, and other allies represent various industries and are guaranteed to bring innovative, real-time knowledge that you can utilize long after the conference has ended.
Our conference theme this year is Advancing Health Care Across the Lifespan: Through Re-Imagining Nursing and Human Caring. We invite you to come and share in the extraordinary reimagining of the NBNA. If you are not a member, this is a great time to join as we move onward and upward!
Sincerely,
Sheldon D. Fields, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, AACRN, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN 14th President – National Black Nurses Association, Inc
For all nurse activists, this virtual gathering is an opportunity to re-affirm the values and ideals of our rich tradition that is expressed on this site in the Nursing Manifesto: A Call to Conscience and Action! The theme of the conference is “Nursology Theory Think Tanks for the Future” building from the tradition started in the 1980’s by Margaret Newman.
This year’s conference is all set to be among the best ever! The program features three plenary panels on Thursday, Saturday and Monday. The 30-minute “knowledge sessions” each day feature speakers from over the world who submitted abstracts focusing on the development of nursing knowledge. Here is just a sample from the 35 knowledge session titles:
“A ch’ixi Nursing is possible. Towards situated epistemologies”
“Your Truth Meter: A Paradigm Shift in Nurse Self-Care”
“Application of the Middle-Range Theory of Nurses’ Psychological Trauma to Nurse Practitioners”
“Understanding Gun Violence via Theory of Reasoned Action and Planned Behavior”
“The Theory of Impeded Academic Perseverance: An Emerging Theory in Nursing Education”
“Whiteness in Nursing Theorizing”
“A Theory-Informed Conceptual Model of Nurse Powerlessness”
“How scientific is nursing? Answers from a new characterization of science”
Each day concludes with an hour-long “Daily Discussion” during which presenters and attendees can interact informally to discuss topics and issues that were presented during the day!
Register nowto have access to all conference events and access to the digital conference “Guidebook.” The registration fee is a flat $180 USD. Scholarships are available – or you can donate a scholarship to help make this conference accessible to everone. The Guidebook will be available about a week before the conference begins, and will contain all presenter bios (with photo) and the slides to be used during their presentation.
Join us to renew our dedication to ending racism in nursing and healthcare! This January workshop for nurses begins on January 13th, and continues on the 20th and 27th. Each Saturday session will be two hours from 2 to 4 PM Eastern Standard Time. Registration for the three Saturdays is $100. To register and for more details go to the Eventbrite registration page
With black workshop facilitator Nanette D. Massey of Buffalo, N.Y., this is your chance to contextualize race from an unfiltered, real world experience rather than theory. With Nanette’s hallmark frankness and practicality, you’ll be left with self-clarity and the ability to act on racism within your own personal spheres of influence with genuine confidence, humor, and humility.
“But I’m not racist,” you say as a white nurse. Still, you work in an industry where appallingly unequal outcomes for white people and others are happening–and normalized. WHO ARE YOU BEING beyond “it didn’t happen on my floor/shift/watch so my hands are clean”? Further, who could you be to make a difference in the dire statistics of our unequal outcomes? To make a difference in the experience of your non-white colleagues?
Dr. Robin DiAngelo, whose book White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racismspent over three years on the New York Times Bestseller list, will join us on Saturday 1/13 and will be taking your questions.
Dr. Willie Underwood, Chairman of the AMA, will be our guest speaker Saturday 1/20 and taking your questions.
Dr. Stephen C. Nelson (retired), Health Equity consultant for the NIH STORM Sickle Cell Grant, and former director of the Sickle Cell Clinic at Children’s Minnesota Hospital weighs in with us on Saturday 1/27.
We are delighted to announce that Nanette D. Massey is joining us again to lead a workshop and discussion over three Saturdays in January – the 13th, 20th and 27th from 2 to 4 pm Eastern! And she has two important guests who will each join the discussion on one of the Saturdays – Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of the book White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism, and Dr. Willie Underwood, Chairman of the AMA. Registrations are open until the start of the second session on Saturday the 20th. After that, registration will be closed. Participants are encouraged to commit to all three sessions. See details below.
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Dr. Willie Underwood, AMA Chairman
Saturday January 27 –
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Nanette D. Massey
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Q&A
Nanette’s Description of the Workshop
The American Medical Association has declared racism “a public health threat.”
“But I’m not racist,” you say as a white nurse. Still, you work in an industry where appallingly unequal outcomes for white people and others are happening–and normalized. WHO ARE YOU BEING beyond “it didn’t happen on my floor/shift/watch so my hands are clean”? Further, who could you be to make a difference in the dire statistics of our unequal outcomes? To make a difference in the experience of your non-white colleagues?
This seminar takes place in two hour sessions over three Saturdays; January 13, 20, and 27. Registration will be cut off at the start of the second session, January 20th.
Dr. Robin DiAngelo, whose book White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racismspent over three years on the New York Times Bestseller list, will join us on Saturday 1/13 and will be taking your questions.
Dr. Willie Underwood, Chairman of the AMA, will be our guest speaker Saturday 1/20 and taking your questions.
The book “White Fragility” has become a cultural touchstone for our time. Most U.S. white people, though, report having no regular contact with non-white people and can only discuss race in an “echo chamber” of other white frames of reference.
With black workshop facilitator Nanette D. Massey of Buffalo, N.Y., this is your chance to contextualize race from an unfiltered, real world experience rather than theory. With Nanette’s hallmark frankness and practicality, you’ll be left with self-clarity and the ability to act on racism within your own personal spheres of influence with genuine confidence, humor, and humility.
We’re taking registrations until the start of the second session on Saturday the 20th. After that, registration will be closed. Participants are encouraged to commit to all three sessions. The material is progressive.
Participants are also urged to read Robin DiAngelo’s book “White Fragility” before joining the seminar. Audience familiarity with its ideas and terms is crucial to the pace of the discussion.
Nanette D Massey, who was an inspiration for, and has worked with “Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing” for over 3 years, has written an article in NABJ Black News and Views that describes the appointment of two Black women to the top administration of Roswell Park cancer center in Buffalo, New York, as a result of a report that detailed widespread racism toward Black nurses, doctors and other staff.
In the article, Nanette describes the situation that the report revealed at Roswell Park, and the changes that the institution is taking to begin making the needed changes. Nanette’s own work has focused on raising the awareness of white people to the widespread realities of racism, and supporting any and all action to bring about change. In the Black News and Views article, she acknowledges the work we are doing in our “Overdue Reckoning” project, including our current October series focused on actions needed by white nurses. Nanette cites Lucinda Canty’s remarks about the systemic ways in which hospitals are designed to sustain racism:
The experiences of Lucinda Canty Ph.D., one of the authors of “An Overdue Reckoning On Racism In Nursing” and an associate professor of nursing at UMass Amherst, add more logs to this fire.
“Hospital systems,” said Canty, ”were never designed for Black people, as patients or employees. Segregation of hospitals ended with the civil rights movement of the 1960’s.That’s not too long ago. The structures are still in place in the form of leadership, policies, or procedures, all designed so that people of color cannot thrive. When racial issues come to light there is no accountability.”
All of us who are nurses and who want to make change can take action anywhere we live and work. We cannot do everything that is required, but each of us can do something. Join in on our Saturday discussions for the remaining Saturdays in October! Here are topics we are planning to kick off discussions for the rest of October –
Oct. 14 – Dismantling white privilege – “What is your experience of remaining silent while people of color speak?”
Oct. 21 – DEI is not enough — “What happens when you attend the dance, but are not asked to dance?”
Oct 28 – Blueprints for action – “What antiracism actions are we committed to take on an individual, group, and structural level?”
You can learn more about Nanette, and the work that she is doing on her website, including information about her in-person workshops in upstate New York, webinars, and writing. Nanette is a highly skilled and compassionate facilitator, and without her inspiration, our work would not have evolved as it did! Connect with her now!
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