Nurses in Kentucky have been mandated to take a bias training that claims there is a “history of racism in healthcare.”
The training, required by the Kentucky Board of Nursing, instructs the health care workers to “recognize the history of racism in healthcare.”
“In order to lead to meaningful change, any exploration of implicit bias must be situated as part of a much larger conversation on racism and bias,” reads a slide from the training.
Nurses were taught that examples of “covert racism,” including “white silence,” “denying institutional racism,” the phrase “there’s only one human race,” “bootstrap theory,” “Eurocentric school curricula,” “weaponizing whiteness,” “fetishizing POC,” “claiming ‘reverse racism,’” “excusing/ ‘white-splaining’ racism.”
“They pretty much said we’re all guilty of being racist, and we need to examine the way that we take care of patients and change our behaviors because we are giving substandard care,” 40-year nursing veteran Rebecca Wall told the Examiner.
From The Daily Wire:
Many nurses were frustrated with the class and objected to the content, but were worried they would be disciplined if they chose not to complete it. “They pretty much said we’re all guilty of being racist, and we need to examine the way that we take care of patients and change our behaviors because we are giving substandard care,” 40-year nursing veteran Rebecca Wall told the Examiner.
