Becker's Healthcare May 31, 2023
Racism and discrimination — from both patients and colleagues — are widespread in the nursing industry, but few nurses report such incidents, new survey findings from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation revealed.
A non-probability sample of 980 U.S. nurses were surveyed from March 23, 2022, to April 7, 2022. The survey was conducted on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation by the McCabe Message Partners and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
Six key findings:
Prevalence and reporting
1. Nearly 80 percent of nurses said they have witnessed or experienced discrimination from patients, and 60 percent from colleagues. Overall, Black/African American nurses were most likely to have seen or experienced racism from...
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