Chief Healthcare Executive August 5, 2022
Ron Southwick

The ANA acknowledges it has failed nurses of color in the past. ANA Enterprise CEO Loressa Cole talks about the organization’s efforts to make amends and vows ‘actions that matter.’

The American Nurses Association is working toward atonement and striving to do better for nurses of color.

The ANA released a “Racial Reckoning Statement” last month acknowledging the organization’s role in perpetuating systemic racism. The statement included specific examples of where the group had failed Black nurses and nurses from other minority groups. The ANA also outlined steps to promote equity and inclusion within the organization and in the nursing profession as a whole.

Loressa Cole, ANA Enterprise CEO, talked to Chief Healthcare Executive about the statement and the ANA’s...

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