VOICE | July 2023
Supporting Diversity
The July issue of Voice of Nursing Leadership discusses supporting diversity. Learn how Seattle Children’s Hospital used a health equity and antiracism plan to change the nursing staff’s attitudes and actions. Read a case study about a Washington health system’s successful implementation of implicit bias recognition education. In addition, the issue features a primer on health equity issues for LGTBQ patients and an article outlining the positive outcomes of hiring disabled nurses.
Supporting diversity is an important topic with many layers of complexity. Back in 2020, while serving as President-elect, I was asked by our Executive Committee to chair AONL’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. I have to admit, at first I questioned whether I was the right person... Continue reading.
During the AONL annual conference in 2022, I joined three other nursing leaders in a panel presentation discussing the experience of CNOs of color. When planning this discussion, we had no idea how it would go and how it would be perceived among our peers. As it turned out, the panel was... Continue reading.
Addressing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and implicit bias are hallmarks of modern nurse leadership and development programs. Examining various nurse leadership curricula over time offers a fascinating opportunity to reflect on the DEI evolution of thought, competency development and... Continue reading.
Just under one in four people – about 25% – in the U.S. lives with a disability (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). In the U.S., nurses comprise the largest segment of the health care workforce (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2022). While the numbers of... Continue reading.
More than 1.6 million individuals age 13 years and older identify as transgender in the United States (Flores et al., 2016), and of the 1.3 million adults identifying as transgender, approximately 342,000 identify as gender-nonconforming. A lack of social gender affirmation contributes to stigmatization, disrespect and... Continue reading.
