{"id":259390,"date":"2022-10-03T07:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T07:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259390"},"modified":"2022-10-04T06:48:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T06:48:13","slug":"implicit-bias-training-cost-me-my-nursing-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259390","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Implicit Bias\u2019 Training Cost Me My Nursing Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laura L. Morgan \u2013 WSJ Sept 30, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

College Station, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n

I was fired from my nursing job this year for refusing to take \u201cimplicit bias\u201d training. After 39 years of providing equal care to all my patients without regard to their race, I objected to a mandatory course grounded in the idea that I\u2019m racist because I\u2019m white. I fear every healthcare professional will soon be forced to make the same awful decision I did: Falsely admit to being racist or abandon the medical field.<\/p>\n

My ordeal started in September 2021 when my employer, Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health, rolled out its annual training modules for clinical educators. The list included \u201cOvercoming Unconscious Bias.\u201d After viewing the interactive course, I contacted my supervisor and asked for a meeting with the chief nursing officer and the human resources director. The former sent a surrogate; the latter didn\u2019t attend. After two meetings, it was clear that I wouldn\u2019t be given an exemption. My supervisor told me, \u201cI don\u2019t want you to die on this cross.\u201d<\/p>\n

But I did. The idea of implicit bias is grounded in the belief that white people treat those who aren\u2019t white worse than those who are. It\u2019s part of the woke assumption that society, including healthcare, suffers from \u201csystemic racism.\u201d Accordingly, my own supposed implicit bias, which is a euphemism for ingrained racism, must be rooted out. Not only that, it must be replaced with preferential treatment for the nonwhite. I fail to see how real racial discrimination is justified by my nonexistent racism.<\/p>\n

I knew it was coming, but I was still devastated when I was fired in February. I went from a six-figure job to zero income. The day I was fired I sold my car to make sure I\u2019d have enough money to live on. When I tried to find a new healthcare job, no one would hire me. No doubt if they contacted my old employer, they were told why I was let go.<\/p>\n

States are increasingly requiring implicit-bias training as a condition for obtaining medical and nursing licenses. As of July, the Kentucky Board of Nursing requires<\/a> that all registered nurses take a continuing-education course on implicit bias. In July, as a journalistic exercise, I paid $5 and signed up for the recommended course, created by the Kentucky Nurses Association. Nurses are told that \u201cimplicit bias kills,\u201d and that white privilege is a \u201ccovert\u201d form of racism. The course walks nurses through their possible contributions to \u201cmodern-day lynchings in the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June, Michigan started requiring all professional-license holders to take two hours of implicit-bias training. That\u2019s everyone from doctors and nurses to dentists and counselors. The training must be taken at every license renewal, which sends the message that racism is essentially permanent and incurable. Massachusetts also mandated implicit-bias training for doctors in June, connecting doctors\u2019 supposed racism to lower-quality care for minority patients. Maryland will enact its rule for \u201call healthcare practitioners\u201d on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n

No state board of medicine or nursing provides sufficient evidence to support the claim that all white people are implicitly biased, and there\u2019s plenty of scholarly research that shows that implicit-bias testing is flawed. Policy makers don\u2019t seem to be considering the unintended consequences of these mandates. Accusing my peers and me of racism will contribute to soaring levels of burnout, causing many to leave the medical profession. Some, like me, will surely be forced out. Patients, especially minorities, will experience the most harm. Their caregivers are being told to admit to unconscious racism. Why would you see a physician who supposedly hates you and will hurt your health?<\/p>\n

More state mandates are surely on the way, including in red states. Most state medical associations, which exert a powerful influence over policy, have bought in to the belief that their own members are racist. The Texas Nurses Association declares<\/a> the existence of \u201cracial biases in healthcare\u201d and supports implicit-bias training for nurses. The national Federation of State Medical Boards urges<\/a> state boards to take a bigger role in addressing the \u201csystemic racism and structural inequities\u201d that it says are \u201cembedded\u201d in American healthcare.<\/p>\n

Before I was fired, I wrote the following to the leadership of Baylor Scott & White Health: \u201cTreating patients, coworkers, family members, and my superiors in a fair and respectful manner is the practice I have subscribed to during my entire 39-year nursing career.\u201d The same is true of most of the medical professionals I\u2019ve worked with. No one\u2014not me, my peers or our patients\u2014will be better off if more states call us liars and racists.<\/p>\n

Ms. Morgan is a registered nurse and program manager at Do No Harm<\/em><\/p>\n

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