91: Reckoning with Racism (Part I)
53 min
This Episode Won A 2023 "Silver" Digital Health Awards®
Racism, Health Outcomes, and the Nursing Profession
Racism in America remains pervasive. It's led to sicker, shorter lives for people of color; a healthcare workforce that hasn't reflected the communities it cares for; and caused harm to nursing and nurses, particularly nurses of color. Aware of its own role in perpetuating systemic racism, the American Nurses Association (ANA) is on a journey of racial reckoning along with many partners inside and outside of nursing and healthcare. In this two-part episode, we hear from leaders in nursing, media, and the life sciences industry about how they are leaning into racial reckoning in their organizations to address and eliminate the harms of racism.
The American Nurses Association and Racial Reckoning
In Part I, Shawna Butler, RN, MBA and co-host Lucinda Canty, PhD, CNM, FACNM engage in thoughtful and forthright dialog with Cheryl Peterson, MSN, RN about the ANA's Racial Reckoning Statement; how it led to the creation of the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing; and the work the ANA has committed to in moving forward to antiracist practices, policies, and the nursing profession.
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SEE YOU NOW is a podcast that shines a light on the real people changing the status quo in health: from nurses working in labor and delivery, with infectious diseases, and in hospice; to nurse allies in politics, business and tech. Created in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson and the American Nurses Association.
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Resources
- Diagnosing the history of racism in the media
- Unpacking how the media influences our views on racism
- What CEO's said about George Floyd's death
- Global Health Equity
- Racial and Ethnic Differences in Access to Medical Care
- Missing Persons: Minorities in the Health Professions
- Racial Discrimination in Healthcare: How Structural Racism Affects Healthcare
- The cost of institutional racism and its ethical implications for healthcare
- Structural racism in historical and modern US health care policy
- ANA Our Racial Reckoning Statement
- National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing
- The sum of us: What racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together
- What racism costs us all
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