The Nursing Salon Experience: A Salon for Nurses of Color

Nursing salons are an opportunity for collegiality, comfort, collaboration, connectivity, and conversations about what's on the hearts and minds of the participants. The Nurses of Color Nursing Salon is a first endeavor in Minnesota to host a salon that provides a safe space for nurses and other health-care professionals of color to have conversations about their experiences with racism, discrimination, and institutionalized supremacy. Since the inception of the Nurses of Color salon on Juneteenth 2018, the hosts and their participants have created lively gatherings where all have engaged in big conversations about the challenges they face as nurses of color, and about racism past and present. The sacred space of the salon has fostered a renewal of their spirits and a restoration of their endless passion for what and who we are as nurses.