A career in nursing involves a lot — including treatment of our white supremacy epidemic. That’s the apparent message of purported instruction in Kentucky.
The Kentucky Board of Nursing requires caregivers to undergo specific training on skin-based bigotry. Developed by the Kentucky Nurses Association, the guidance is part of the state’s “Continuing Education Competency.” Topics include:
- Pharmacology Education
- RN and LPN Education
- Suicide Prevention
- Implicit Bias Avoidance
As for that last subject, the Washington Examiner relays nurses are told their “best intentions will not solve implicit bias.”
Hence, reportedly, from the training’s opening slide:
In order to lead to meaningful change, any exploration of implicit bias must be situated as part of a much larger conversation on racism and bias.
Featured in another slide: a photo of the Ku Klux Klan and a burning cross.
More, from the Examiner:
A diagram of “overt racism” and “covert racism” [is] 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” is defined, in part, as follows:
- White Silence
- Denying Institutional Racism
- Denying White Privilege
- Weaponizing Whiteness
- Fetishizing People Of Color
- Eurocentric School Curricula
- Claiming Reverse Racism
- “There’s Only One Human Race”
- Excusing/White-Splaining Racism
Per the Examiner, the teaching medicalizes white wickedness:
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.
That’s a load of racism and a ton of impact. So goes modern America — we’re reliably informed there’s rampant oppression going ’round. Thankfully, institutions are doing their part to pummel it:
Professor Tells White Student if He’s Breathing, He ‘May Have Oppressed Somebody’ Today
Professor Prescribes ‘Reregulation’ to Help White People Stop Their Racist Violence
Tennessee University Segregates Students, Hails the Absence of White People as ‘Magical’
Science Journal Decries Racism in Geology, Claims Black People Are Too Scared to Hold Hammers
Where injustice is concerned, the nation’s medical apparatus is digging deep:
Medical School Hosts Task Force to Eradicate White Racism ‘Locally and More Broadly’
Esteemed Medical Journal Prescribes the Cure for America’s Racism: Segregation
State University of New York Trains Nurses on the Anatomy of the ‘Genderbread Person’
Doctors Say Black People Have Headaches and Insomnia From Whiteness-Induced PTSD
Hospitals Are Starting to Ask Men if They’re Pregnant
Will supplemental, social medical care make patients healthier? The Kentucky Nurses Association appears to believe so. Hopefully, nonwhite patients won’t be denied explanation of their medical condition because attendants are afraid of “white-splaining.” Hopefully, Caucasian caregivers won’t deny attention to the nonwhite sick for fear of “fetishizing People Of Color.” And hopefully, People of the Pale in the nursing field won’t fear attending to patients equally — despite the fact that “There’s only one human race” is an offensive idea.
Speaking of, Kentucky’s official state motto is “United we stand, divided we fall.” Perhaps the Kentucky Board of Nursing is aware of this.
But also, perhaps not.
-ALEX
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