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NEW YEAR, NEW LOOK. 50 Years of Service
CCBN celebrates it's 50th year of service empowering underserved communities for equitable health care for all people. Join us all year long as we explore what CCBN has done, is doing, and plans to do to assure that culturally competent and equitable health care is a basic human right, not at privilege. Keep a lookout for website updates, current initiatives, blasts from the past, and insights into the future. Mark your calendars for these upcoming CCBN events and be a part of CCBN's historic year. Click HERE
UPCOMING FEATURED EVENTS
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Scroll Down To See How We Promote Culturally Competent and Equitable Healthcare for All
ONE RACE
should not be burdened with determining the health standards for
ALL RACES
COMMUNITY OUTREACH: WE SERVE WITH PRIDE
Join The Colorado Council of Black Nurses Inc in supporting under-served communities to be equal contributors in the determination of healthcare standards by increasing the number of Black/African American professional nurses throughout the healthcare continuum. You don't have to be "Black" to belong. You only need a desire to support the mission of equitable healthcare for ALL and a willingness to address health equity from a cultural perspective.
OUR IMPACT ON HEALTH CARE THIS QUARTER
CELEBRATE WITH US!
Thanking YOU for a successful year and all you do for equitable health for all. CELEBRATE WITH US!
On Saturday, December 17, 2022, CCBN celebrated its year's achievements on health equity and thanked those who helped make our year a success. The atmosphere was festive and inspirational at Colorado's Health Capitol as health equity champions as far away as England gathered together in-person and virtually to witness the fruits of their labor and recharge for a new year of breaking barriers to optimum health care for all people. Thank you all again for your support of CCBN's mission and the communities we serve.
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100% of Recently Graduated CCBN Scholars and CCBN Student Members Passed the NCLEX!
Congrats to our recently graduated CCBN Scholars and CCBN student members who graduated with an ADN or BSN. As of October 2022, ALL passed their NCLEX and are full-fledged RN’s! Congrats to CCBN Scholars Elsy David Peoples BSN, RN, Danyelle Gilbert BSN, RN, and Dayriana Sanders ADN, RN. Congrats to CCBN student members Omarah Macias-Czarnecki BSN, RN, Upasana Nepal BSN, RN, and Gabriel Toepel BSN, RN. The future of Nursing at its best!
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3-2-1 BLAST-OFF!
The CCBN Space Expo: National Launch
This year's goals are "simple": (1) Get 1 million youth to send a CCBN Space Expo themed postcard to Club for the Future to be flown on a future Blue Origin flight and returned to them so that they will always have something from space; (2) Instill hope in our youth - especially those who are justice involved - that our past doesn't have to define our future because our future is not yet written, and (3) HAVE FUN both learning about space and sharing with others what we've learned about space. Well, that didn't happen, but the year is not over yet so we're not giving up. There's still time to get those postcards in with the new goal of reaching the million mark by April 2023. CLICK HERE to access the CCBN Space Expo National Launch page and and track the number of postcards distributed. Spread the word. #aChanceToLeap #CCBNSpaceExpo
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Colorado Nurse License Plates Now Available... Supports Nurses Education
We are elated to announce, that after many long months, the Colorado Nurse License Plate spearheaded by CCBN member Jennifer Allen-Thomas RN that honors Colorado’s nurses and helps support Colorado Nursing students is finally available for public purchase! To get the DMV certificate, go to the Colorado Nurses Foundation website at https://www.coloradonursesfoundation.com/nurses-license-plate1 or click the link located under CCBN’s donation tab. #ColoradoNursesRock
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The Colorado Council of Black Nurses is on a mission to break the resistance barrier that for the past 70 years has kept nurses from exiting Earth's orbit. Stay Tuned...
CCBN is doing its part in stopping the spread of COVID-19 by providing tips and information on how YOU can TAKE CONTROL of YOUR part in stopping the spread of this coronavirus. CLICK HERE or go to the COVID-19 tab to learn how you can TAKE CONTROL to STOP the SPREAD.
We Suggest Love... Above All... Through It All... For All
"Can't get rid of hate unless you replace it with something else." Quote from "Burden" by Andrew Heckler
Whether it's at a Town Hall, Seminar, Legislative Hearing, or Community Gathering, please join CCBN and ECCBN as we address Racism within the Healthcare Continuum.
As the first REGISTERED Black nurse in the United States, Mary Mahoney was well known for her professionalism, excellent nursing skills, and her ability to inspire others to work together for human rights.
Mary Eliza Mahoney
For nearly 50 years, the Colorado Council of Black Nurses, Inc. (CCBN) has continued the tradition of professionalism, excellent nursing skills, and the promotion of equal human rights through collaborative practices that address healthcare disparities as well as health status disparities from a cultural perspective. CCBN's initiation and promotion of culturally competent and equitable health care practices within the state of Colorado has effected change in global health initiatives, national healthcare standards, Colorado state healthcare policies, and postsecondary curriculum in colleges, universities, and schools of Nursing throughout the state of Colorado; thereby improving the health status of all Coloradoans through the sustaining of high quality and professional health care.
