Covid-19 Information and Initiatives

COVID-19

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What is it? COVID-19 is a virus that is spread through droplets that are released into the air when a person who is has the virus (is infected) sneezes or coughs.

What are some of the symptoms?
​Cough, fever, shortness of breath, muscle aches, sore throat, loss of taste or smell, headaches, diarrhea.

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Midlands receives $10,000 for
​Covid-19 Project

​The Midlands of South Carolina Black Nurses Association has been awarded $10,000 from the RWJ Alumni Network Activation Fund. 49 applications were received and their project is one of seven that was funded. The initiative will be led by Lisa Davis, MBA, MPH, BS, RN, President, Midlands of South Carolina Black Nurses Association, Inc. Ms. Davis will be collaborating with RWJF alumnae Jeanette Andrews, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Robin Dail, PhD, RN, FAAN on this project.
The project will use photovoice, a qualitative method used for community-based participatory research to document and portray reality- in this case, the experiences that African Americans face in the context of COVID-19. 

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​Midlands of South Carolina Black Nurses Association Receives $1,000 Award!

​​The COVID 19 pandemic has touched nearly every aspect of our daily lives, yet many of our brothers and sisters have been more impacted and disproportionately plagued during this conflicting, confusing and dangerous time...
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Member Spotlight

2020 Student Member Graduate

Cheedy Jaja, PhD, MPH, MSN, PMHNP-BC, APRN, member, Midlands of South Carolina BNA, was selected into the 2020 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing. A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Jaja's research interest is in sickle cell disease pain and pharmacogenetics. He was a frontline worker during the Ebola crisis while establishing Sierra Leone's first sickle cell registry.

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Kamiya Shoshan

Member

Cheedy Jaja, PhD, MPH, MSN, PMHNP-BC, APRN,

​We’d like to extend a huge congratulations to our graduating student members. We are very proud of them and know they will ace the NCLEX!
​We are looking forward to their continued membership as first year nurses!

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Graduate

​Dominique Lyons
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