Posted on 04/23/2025 7:32:39 AM PDT by Enterprise
The Department of Health and Human Services will hand out over $20 million in “diversity” grants this year aimed at increasing the number of minority nurses, even as the Trump administration has sought to crack down on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The purpose of the initiative, known as the Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWP) Program, is to “increase nursing education opportunities for individuals who are from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses).” It is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of HHS, and has distributed nearly $200 million in grants since 2008.
Applications for the 2025 iteration closed last month, and the Health Resources and Services Administration estimates that it will shell out over $22 million on the program in July when the funds are set to be awarded. The program’s Notice of Funding lays out the purposes of the program, which include increasing racial minorities enrolled in nursing programs and increasing the number of minorities who receive “support” to stay in nursing programs.
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I have been in the room at a background screening company where countless AA women were called and told they didn’t qualify to work in the medical field that they had applied because of felonies on their records.
As in: MURDER second degree, theft and violence.
Look for them to make it illegal to run background checks on them.
Simple answer, import more Filipinas! Every girl who can go to college there wants to be a nurse. The ones that pass will make great nurses, will work hard, and be grateful for the opportunity.
(I’m kinda biased as my beautiful wife is a Filipina nurse).
But seriously though, instead of trying to turn an inner-city sow’s ear into a silk purse, just bring in more Filipinas! :)
Doncha wanna know if your nurse was able to read write and pass maff class?
Anyway it is better to judge someone by the size of their nostrils rather than the color of their skin. /sarc
Here in the South, they’re 90% black already! I guess the goal is 100%!
In Vietnam we had Filipino bands doing tours to the various GI camps. We had them a couple of times, and the women were just absolutely hot.
Trump does not have this agency under control. While cleaning up HHS is less critical than the FBI, it is still necessary.
After having experienced several hospitals and long-term care homes with various elderly relatives - If at all possible, I would only choose white/asian nurses, I would also pick private over public health care, if I could afford it - and rural-suburban over urban, if location permits it.
this article gives insight into exactly why that is.
Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot.
The NFL and NBA are Meritocracies!
OMG!!! A patient may see a nurse that does not look like them and that can be bad for the medical treatment!!! /sarc
As white man I can testify that 99% of the time my nurses over the years HAVE BEEN of a “minority” demograhic and not “white”.
The program seems to me to be 100% not needed.
LOL!!
I can agree with that.
Am I the only who has noticed that actors in most tv commercials now are all people of color?
Why? Do they work cheaper?
What's this--a homicide pact?
And, the couples in TV commercials are often inter-racial. In some case, there are families with white, black and Asian members. Have to check all the boxes.
Here at the nursing home I'm in outside of Nashville there's 10 blacks for every white and half of those whites are homosexual men.
Ben Stiller was really playing against type in those "Meet the Parents" movies, having his character being hetero.
I have to use a writing board to communicate and one nurse said "Lawd there you goes writin' agin. I done got enough readin' in Nursing School." I wrote "I believe it", to which she became very offended.
I tend to forget that I'm just a product here to justify their having a job.
The years of experience should be the only measurement for qualification. Decades as a neonatal nurse can’t be dismissed by skin color the doctor nurse working relationship can’t be manipulated by social engineering.
Something that is never mentioned is what effect steering people into fields that they are not naturally drawn to has in the big picture and over time.
From nursing to airplane mechanics, construction to ship building and building submarines, soldiering and sailoring to boardrooms and engineering, welding to science, what are the short term and long term effects of putting people into lifetime careers which they not only were not deeply interested in, but also were not especially qualified for and perhaps not a good fit in.
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