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Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, Native American, Asian, and Pacific Islander nurses have played a critical role in shaping professional nursing and health care. Despite their contributions, the narrative of nursing's origin has predominantly revolved around the legacy of a single white British nurse, Florence Nightingale. This paper presents the development of the Nurses You Should Know (NYSK) project, which sought to decolonize the narrative surrounding nursing's history and highlight the contributions and experiences of past and present-day nurses of color. The NYSK project utilized an Equity-Centered Community Design process, incorporating microlearning strategies, storytelling, and history to develop a digital library of over 100 stories of nurses of color that capture nursing's rich and complex history. Utilized as a resource within nursing curricula, the NYSK project stands as a testament to the power of history in promoting a more inclusive and equitable future for nursing, offering valuable insights for educators, researchers, and practitioners., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Efforts to integrate tenets of social justice into PhD nursing programs are long-standing but have intensified in the past few years in response to civil unrest, threats to human rights, and health inequities exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we present an overview of our School of Nursing's efforts and processes to evaluate and ensure that social justice principles were reflected throughout the PhD program. Components of this initiative included (a) forming a Social Justice Taskforce, (b) conducting listening sessions with alumni and currently enrolled PhD students to understand student experiences, (c) surveying PhD students to aid in prioritization of recommendations for improvement, and (d) convening key stakeholders to connect student priority areas to institutional programs and practices. Lessons learned through these activities highlighted the importance of gaining the perspective of diverse constituents and stakeholders, acknowledging areas for improvement, engaging students in transformative action, and partnering with faculty, staff, and leaders in solution development as we work to eliminate systemic injustices in PhD nursing education., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest related to this article. The research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The authors did not receive any financial support or funding from any organization that would create a conflict of interest with the research presented in this article., (Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)