Structural Racism Hurts All Nurses
Danica Sumpter1, Angela Richard-Eaglin, Abraham Ndiwane
1Danica Sumpter is a clinical associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Angela Richard-Eaglin is associate dean for equity at the Yale University School of Nursing in Orange, CT, and Abraham Ndiwane is an associate professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing in Boston. Contact author: Danica Sumpter, danica.sumpter@utexas.edu . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
The American Journal of Nursing
|March 23, 2023
Abstract:
Why health care must be reenvisioned through a DEI lens.
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