Member Activities
Health Fair
Blood Tests
Scholarships
Christmas Activity
NBNA Day on Capitol Hill 2010

MEMBER ACTIVITIES

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COUNCIL?

• Recruit and retain black students in various nursing programs.
• Acting as a liaison with related organizations.
• Mentoring of multicultural nursing students in various programs.
• Providing scholarships and loans for black nursing students.
• Developing proposals to secure funding for investigating ways of improving health care for ethnic people of color.
• Developing programs to influence nurse legislation regarding nursing service and nursing education.
• Providing direct health services to people in the black community, e.g., hypertension screening, first aid service during community activities, immunization programs participate in walk-a-thons, Breast Cancer Programs, The Diabetes Foundation, and others.
• Publishing a quarterly newsletter to inform members and other interested persons of the Council's activities.