All nurses deserve to live and work without having to sacrifice their safety and well-being, writes Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Michelle Larkin.
Across the nation, nurses are demanding a seat at the table to drive meaningful, long-overdue policy changes and improvements to their working conditions—and lawmakers and healthcare leaders are paying more attention than ever.
Nursing is considered the most trusted profession by Gallup polling for 20 straight years. But nurses, and particularly nurses of color, frequently lack a supportive and inclusive work environment. Instead, inequitable and unsustainable working conditions—coupled with alarming reports of patient and colleague racism—have led to a burned-out, depleted nursing workforce clamoring for change. The recent Supreme Court ruling that will severely restrict race-conscious admissions policies will likely worsen the field's already-tenuous pipeline and diversity issues.
The above is an excerpt of a piece originally published in Modern Healthcare.
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