Posted on 07/22/2023 12:05:51 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
The Kentucky Board of Nursing mandated nurses to take an " implicit bias " course to "recognize the history of racism in healthcare" and threatened "discipline" for failure to do so.
The ultimatum to complete the "mandatory continuing education" training, which was developed by the Kentucky Nurses Association , forced nurses to complete the training by July 1.
"They pretty much said we're all guilty of being racist, and we need to examine the way that we take care of patients and change our behaviors because we are giving substandard care," Rebecca Wall, a Kentucky certified registered nurse anesthetist with 40 years experience, told the Washington Examiner.
The training , presented by KNA Board of Directors Treasurer Arica Brandford and KNA CEO Delanor Manson, told nurses that "best intentions will not solve implicit bias in healthcare."
The training coincided with the licensure and license renewal period.
A diagram of "overt racism" and "covert racism" was included in one slide that suggests a white woman asking a black woman where she is from is "covert racism."
Examples of "overt racism" include lynching, painting swastikas, and "public harassment of [persons of color] speaking other than English."
"Covert racism" includes "white silence," "denying institutional racism," saying "there's only one human race," denying white privilege, "bootstrap theory," "Eurocentric school curricula," "weaponizing whiteness," "fetishizing POC," "claiming 'reverse racism,'" "excusing/ 'white-splaining' racism," and many more.
According to the training, racism can be a contributing factor in hypertension, maternal health, low birth weight and prematurity, heart disease, diabetes, increased body mass index, depression, anxiety, and stress.
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Things are only getting worse at an alarming rate.
I’d take discipline.
I can’t wait for just black surgeons and pilots.
It’s a brave new world…
All the nurses need to band together and sue.
Wait till the trannies
Borders, Language, Culture.
Wait till only the rainbow can fly on the flagpole
I will live in the woods and eat mice before I pay homage to mentally ill sexual deviants.
“... band together and sue.”
This should be the BoomerCon epitaph
That's a new one.
I'd like to ax a question about that one. Anyone have an example?
May retribution to them be in the form of unquenchable fire
Good luck getting nurses. They’re short staffed as it is. My daughter (RN) is the person who approves all exemptions at her hospital (this happened after covid), everyone gets one who applies. They still can’t get enough nurses. To make matters worse, the management called everyone who they fired during covid to please come back. Not one did. It’s going to be covid all over again.
No, it’s not a Babylon Bee article.
Apply for and get an out-of-state license before your Kentucky license expires.
Mitch McConnell needs some education.
So...the history of the democrat party?
It seems to me that the standards were adopted without the Kentucky Legislature signing off on the board of licensure’s final right to set the standards. That would be one way to approach the issue. The legislature sets the policies and writes the laws and can say nay if they wish. They hold the power of the purse.
And how far do you live from a hospital, Mr. White?
Much further away than Mr. Black.
So it’s no longer “systemic racism”, it’s “structural racism” now.
The Orwellians are working overtime at the Newspeak factory.
Kentucky?? Have they even taken over redneck country?
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