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.
, 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."
Laura Morgan, a nurse of 39 years and program manager at the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, told theKBN disputes that licenses were being threatened, telling thethat the implicit bias training is required by regulation"considered and passed" by a Kentucky General Assembly committee, adding,"failure to do it could result in a civil sanction or discipline.
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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