Study: More research needed to address racism in nursing

A scoping review of 31 articles showed nurses from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds report experiencing racism that may negatively affect their physical and psychological well-being. The article, published in Nursing Outlook, also identified evidence gaps, including the need to use consistent characterizations and terms to define the “experience of racism” and “well-being." Future research should explore how racism contributes to burnout and moral distress, as well as the factors fostering resilience in racial and ethnic minority nurses. Those findings could help researchers to identify individual, unit and institutional interventions to decrease racism to improve recruitment and retention of racial and ethnic minority nurses to better address health care disparities, the authors say. (Nursing Outlook article, 1/27/25)