MedPage Today May 5, 2023
— From education to patient care, nurses speak out about their encounters with racism
After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and on the heels of a nationwide awakening of the countless murders of people of color, six nurses began to work on creating a series of mini-documentaries that captured the experience of racism in nursing in the U.S.
The “Reckoning with Racism in Nursing” docu-series was created to foster a space for nurses of color to “know they’re not alone,” said Lucinda Canty, PhD, RN, one of the six creators of the series.
“I didn’t learn any history of Black nurses when I was in nursing school. I felt like, ‘am I in the right profession?'” Canty told...
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