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State Medical Board Demands Nurses Not 'White-Splain,' Be Colorblind, or 'Weaponize Whiteness'

  • Writer: WGON
    WGON
  • Jul 27, 2023
  • 2 min read

A career in nursing demands a lot — including treating the epidemic of white supremacy. That’s the apparent message of purported instruction in Kentucky.


The Kentucky Board of Nursing requires caregivers to undergo specific training on skin-based bigotry. Developed by the Kentucky Nurses Association, the guidance is part of the state’s “Continuing Education Competency.” Topics include:


  • Pharmacology Education

  • RN and LPN Education

  • Suicide Prevention

  • Implicit Bias Avoidance


As for that last subject, the Washington Examiner relays nurses are told their “best intentions will not solve implicit bias.”


Hence, reportedly, from the training’s opening slide:

In order to lead to meaningful change, any exploration of implicit bias must be situated as part of a much larger conversation on racism and bias.

Featured in another slide: a photo of the Ku Klux Klan and a burning cross.


More, from the Examiner:

A diagram of “overt racism” and “covert racism” [is] included in one slide that suggests a white woman asking a black woman where she is from is “covert racism.” Examples of “overt racism” include lynching, painting swastikas, and “public harassment of [persons of color] speaking other than English.”

“Covert racism” is defined, in part, as follows:

  • White Silence

  • Denying Institutional Racism

  • Denying White Privilege

  • Weaponizing Whiteness

  • Fetishizing People Of Color

  • Eurocentric School Curricula

  • Claiming Reverse Racism

  • “There’s Only One Human Race”

  • Excusing/White-Splaining Racism

Per the Examiner, the teaching medicalizes white wickedness:


According to the training, racism can be a contributing factor in hypertension, maternal health, low birth weight and prematurity, heart disease, diabetes, increased body mass index, depression, anxiety, and stress.

That’s a whole lot of racism and a big ton of impact. So goes modern America — we’re reliably informed there’s rampant oppression going ’round. Thankfully, institutions are doing their part to pummel it:


Where injustice is concerned, the nation’s medical apparatus is digging deep:


Will supplemental, social medical care make patients healthier? The Kentucky Nurses Association appears to believe so. Hopefully, nonwhite patients won’t be denied explanation of their medical condition because attendants are afraid of “white-splaining.” Hopefully, Caucasian caregivers won’t deny attention to the nonwhite sick for fear of “fetishizing People Of Color.” And hopefully, People of the Pale in the nursing field won’t fear attending to patients equally — despite the fact that “There’s only one human race” is an offensive idea.


Speaking of, Kentucky’s official state motto is “United we stand, divided we fall.” Perhaps the Kentucky Board of Nursing is aware of this.


But also, perhaps not.

 
 
 

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