CE: Addressing Implicit Bias in Nursing: A Review.

Am J Nurs

Mary Curry Narayan is a home health clinical nurse specialist, a certified transcultural nurse, a clinical education consultant, and a doctoral student at George Mason University College of Health and Human Services, Fairfax, VA. The author thanks Lauren Kuykendall, PhD, and R. Kevin Mallinson, PhD, RN, both of George Mason University, for their recommendations in the preparation of this manuscript. Contact author: The author and planners have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Published: July 2019

: This article examines the nature of implicit, or unconscious, bias and how such bias develops. It describes the ways that implicit bias among health care providers can contribute to health care disparities and discusses strategies nurses can use to recognize and mitigate any biases they may have so that all patients receive respectful and equitable care-regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, socioeconomic status, disabilities, stigmatized diagnoses, or any characteristic that distinguishes them from societal norms.

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