When Aron King shares that he is an assistant nurse manager, he knows questions are coming. Only 7% of nurses are Black and male so he gets, "How did you get into nursing?" a lot. Most don't mean it to be a microaggression, but regardless, it is. Through his research and community involvement, he's out to change the mold society has formed for healthcare workers.
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02/01/23 • 19 min
A Nurse First - Own it
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Being an African American male, I'm at this intersection of two underrepresented groups in nursing. So although I had a great experience overall in my nursing program, there were times where I experienced some either microaggressions or some implicit bias from rotations in the hospital, or there's certain things that were said in the classroom. And this is not always things that are ...
They're not direct attacks. It's just things that
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