Black Nurse, White Medicine - E-book - ePub

Despite historical facts, today's nurses often resist the idea that healthcare providers and/or organizations perpetuate oppressive racial and socioeconomic practices contributing to disparity and discrimination in healthcare. Nurses are educated to value the individuality of the patient, which sometimes fails to address ethnic identity and racial powerlessness. Subsequently, the inherent power differential based on race becomes invisible because it excludes the individual's relationship to the larger community and thus excludes the individual's relationship to the collective history of their racial groups. Black nurses report feeling professionally invisible and experience an inexplicable inability to advance.
Black nurses report sensing professionally invisible and experiencing an inexplicable inability to advance.  Increasing attrition among black nurses and student nurses in hospitals and academic settings is costly to affected individuals, organizations, and the profession.  Fewer black nurses advance to management positions and become professors with doctoral degrees. Therefore, black nursing students complain about fewer role models during their course of study.
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