WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.450 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.450 --> 00:00:02.158 align:middle line:84% MILANIA HARRIS: I don't think most people 00:00:02.158 --> 00:00:05.070 align:middle line:84% go in knowing they're explicitly anything 00:00:05.070 --> 00:00:07.838 align:middle line:84% but it's there deep down whether they deal with it or not. 00:00:07.838 --> 00:00:09.630 align:middle line:84% ANNA WOEPKE: You can kind of tell that they 00:00:09.630 --> 00:00:10.880 align:middle line:90% have a bias towards one thing. 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:13.163 align:middle line:90% It's just a slip of a word. 00:00:13.163 --> 00:00:14.580 align:middle line:84% SARAH CRAIG: If a nurse says stand 00:00:14.580 --> 00:00:17.100 align:middle line:84% in the corner for this entire patient encounter 00:00:17.100 --> 00:00:19.890 align:middle line:84% and don't speak, what do you say in that moment? 00:00:19.890 --> 00:00:21.840 align:middle line:84% TOMEKA DOWLING: What do you do when 00:00:21.840 --> 00:00:24.750 align:middle line:84% you're faced with that difficult conversation? 00:00:24.750 --> 00:00:27.390 align:middle line:90% You hear bias happening? 00:00:27.390 --> 00:00:28.790 align:middle line:90% What do you do? 00:00:28.790 --> 00:00:31.890 align:middle line:84% ASHLEY HURST: A spotlight has been placed on ways 00:00:31.890 --> 00:00:35.670 align:middle line:84% that we discriminate and disadvantage 00:00:35.670 --> 00:00:37.420 align:middle line:90% people in our population. 00:00:37.420 --> 00:00:39.420 align:middle line:84% It's not outside the curriculum, this 00:00:39.420 --> 00:00:40.800 align:middle line:84% is at the core of the curriculum. 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:42.300 align:middle line:84% TOMEKA DOWLING: Our nursing students 00:00:42.300 --> 00:00:45.240 align:middle line:84% have been asking for this, they've 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:48.690 align:middle line:84% been asking for instruction and guidance 00:00:48.690 --> 00:00:51.820 align:middle line:84% on how do you handle difficult situations. 00:00:51.820 --> 00:00:55.200 align:middle line:84% This is critical for nurses to do it while you're learning. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:56.430 align:middle line:90% It's foundational. 00:00:56.430 --> 00:00:58.120 align:middle line:84% It becomes a part of who you are, 00:00:58.120 --> 00:01:01.600 align:middle line:84% it becomes a part of how you think, your mindset. 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.260 align:middle line:84% How do we equip them now in a student role 00:01:04.260 --> 00:01:06.330 align:middle line:84% so that when they are nurses, they'll 00:01:06.330 --> 00:01:08.285 align:middle line:84% know how to respond in the profession? 00:01:08.285 --> 00:01:09.660 align:middle line:84% KIMBERLY ACQUAVIVA: I spend a lot 00:01:09.660 --> 00:01:12.390 align:middle line:84% of time talking about race, racism, and privilege 00:01:12.390 --> 00:01:14.430 align:middle line:90% in every class I teach. 00:01:14.430 --> 00:01:17.820 align:middle line:84% Nurses have, as part of their code of ethics, an obligation 00:01:17.820 --> 00:01:21.820 align:middle line:84% to advocate for the elimination of racial injustice and racism. 00:01:21.820 --> 00:01:23.610 align:middle line:90% So, I teach students about this. 00:01:23.610 --> 00:01:26.070 align:middle line:84% And I talk about privilege, I talk about the privilege 00:01:26.070 --> 00:01:30.400 align:middle line:84% that my white skin conveys anytime I walk into a room. 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.570 align:middle line:84% MILANIA HARRIS: I've seen, I guess racism in healthcare 00:01:33.570 --> 00:01:35.850 align:middle line:84% before with my own family and it's not pretty. 00:01:35.850 --> 00:01:37.350 align:middle line:84% People don't like to think that they 00:01:37.350 --> 00:01:40.620 align:middle line:84% can be the one perpetuating these things but they can. 00:01:40.620 --> 00:01:43.230 align:middle line:84% THERESA CARROLL: That's why this is work that people 00:01:43.230 --> 00:01:45.420 align:middle line:90% like me have to do, right? 00:01:45.420 --> 00:01:49.620 align:middle line:84% Because honestly, I don't have 250 years 00:01:49.620 --> 00:01:52.770 align:middle line:84% of exhaustion sitting on my shoulders 00:01:52.770 --> 00:01:54.790 align:middle line:90% like some of our students do. 00:01:54.790 --> 00:02:03.088 align:middle line:90% 00:02:03.088 --> 00:02:04.880 align:middle line:84% ANNA WOEPKE: A lot of the things that we've 00:02:04.880 --> 00:02:06.463 align:middle line:84% talked about in these groups are being 00:02:06.463 --> 00:02:08.750 align:middle line:84% able to step back, reflect on how you're 00:02:08.750 --> 00:02:10.550 align:middle line:84% feeling in that moment, and then be 00:02:10.550 --> 00:02:12.213 align:middle line:84% able to make the change going forward. 00:02:12.213 --> 00:02:14.630 align:middle line:84% MILANIA HARRIS: I came up with the idea of the new nursing 00:02:14.630 --> 00:02:16.760 align:middle line:84% pledge that's going to be hopefully plastered 00:02:16.760 --> 00:02:18.770 align:middle line:84% on a banner in the top of the website. 00:02:18.770 --> 00:02:20.990 align:middle line:84% That was birthed from those groups, 00:02:20.990 --> 00:02:22.832 align:middle line:84% too, which I'm really excited for. 00:02:22.832 --> 00:02:25.040 align:middle line:84% THERESA CARROLL: I think one of the reasons why we've 00:02:25.040 --> 00:02:29.420 align:middle line:84% had so much enthusiasm, energy, eagerness for what we're 00:02:29.420 --> 00:02:31.520 align:middle line:84% doing this summer is because we do 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:34.940 align:middle line:84% have a population of students that more and more and more 00:02:34.940 --> 00:02:38.000 align:middle line:84% really do reflect that population around us, 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.250 align:middle line:84% that community we're going to serve. 00:02:40.250 --> 00:02:42.722 align:middle line:84% And so suddenly there's some power in voices. 00:02:42.722 --> 00:02:44.180 align:middle line:84% MILANIA HARRIS: I could tell people 00:02:44.180 --> 00:02:46.820 align:middle line:84% it's like, they're afraid to uncover things 00:02:46.820 --> 00:02:49.130 align:middle line:84% about themselves that may come off 00:02:49.130 --> 00:02:51.450 align:middle line:90% as offensive or problematic. 00:02:51.450 --> 00:02:55.470 align:middle line:84% And I say, knowing those things is a lot better than pretending 00:02:55.470 --> 00:02:56.780 align:middle line:90% like they're not there. 00:02:56.780 --> 00:03:00.530 align:middle line:84% So, it's OK to go digging and find some things about yourself 00:03:00.530 --> 00:03:02.200 align:middle line:84% that may be uncomfortable and you 00:03:02.200 --> 00:03:04.100 align:middle line:84% don't want to be vulnerable about but taking 00:03:04.100 --> 00:03:06.200 align:middle line:84% that step is really big and being 00:03:06.200 --> 00:03:08.390 align:middle line:90% the best nurse you can be. 00:03:08.390 --> 00:03:10.730 align:middle line:84% TOMEKA DOWLING: If we never educate or take the time 00:03:10.730 --> 00:03:17.190 align:middle line:84% to step up and say something, we as a community, as a culture, 00:03:17.190 --> 00:03:18.830 align:middle line:84% as a society would still be doing 00:03:18.830 --> 00:03:22.575 align:middle line:84% things that was happening in the 1960s, 1930s, even beyond that. 00:03:22.575 --> 00:03:24.200 align:middle line:84% ANNA WOEPKE: It makes me realize that I 00:03:24.200 --> 00:03:27.200 align:middle line:84% should be standing up for people more than I have been. 00:03:27.200 --> 00:03:29.720 align:middle line:84% That it's not OK right now to be sitting on the sidelines 00:03:29.720 --> 00:03:32.240 align:middle line:84% and just cheering them on, you have to be playing the sport, 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:34.900 align:middle line:84% you have to be playing the game with them. 00:03:34.900 --> 00:03:40.000 align:middle line:90%