Fast Facts about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Nursing: Building Competencies for an Antiracism Practice

This nursing handbook provides a comprehensive toolbox for understanding race and racism at structural, institutional, and individual levels. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing racism as a factor behind health inequities and offers strategies for engaging in dialogue about it. The book covers key concepts such as microaggressions, implicit bias, power, privilege, and intersectionality through case studies and reflection questions. It promotes antiracism, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the nursing profession.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 210 pages
Publication date: 28 July 2022
Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc

This comprehensive nursing handbook provides a comprehensive toolbox for understanding race and racism at structural, institutional, and individual levels. It introduces and defines key terms about race and racism for nurses, nursing students, and nurse educators, addressing how they act as structural and core social determinants of health and propel health inequities. The book moves beyond a focus on multicultural approaches for understanding inequity toward a recognition of the broader impact that systemic and structural racism have had on inequality in health and life opportunities.

Through a social justice lens, the book underscores how nurses, as frontline health professionals, need to understand racism as a factor behind these inequities and its significance to their working environment and nursing practice.

In concise chapters with brief paragraphs and bulleted information, this practical handbook offers strategies for how to productively engage in a dialogue about race and racism. It considers the history of racism in the United States and then breaks down how it operates at structural, institutional, and individual levels. Case studies illustrate such concepts as microaggressions, implicit bias, power, privilege, and intersectionality in order to foster understanding and provide opportunities for both self-reflection and collective conversation.

Key Features:

Delivers clear and easy-to-read content in concise, bulleted format.

Empowers nurses to initiate conversations about race and racism in the workplace and classroom with confidence and ease.

Provides an historical context for understanding how racism contributes to inequities in health and economic opportunities.

Illustrates concepts with case studies and reflection questions.

Features Fast Facts boxes to provide quick summaries of important concepts.

This nursing handbook is an essential resource for all nurses and nursing students who want to better understand the impact of race and racism on health outcomes and work towards creating a more equitable and just healthcare system.

Dimension: 203 x 127 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780826177254