RACIAL REFUSAL IN NURSING
RACIAL REFUSAL IN NURSING
An Equal Opportunity Predator
Yesterday’s EJI, “Alabama Bars Treatment of Black Men by White Nurses,” caught my attention like many others since I started reading them daily in January of 2024.
More and more, EJI’s posts reminded me of conversations I heard between my grandmother and other family members or grandmother and some of her peers. Some remind me of events I vicariously experienced through others whom I knew. Yesterday’s report began with
On September 29, 1915,the Alabama legislature passed a law forbidding "white female nurses" from working "in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private in which negro men are placed for treatment, or to be nursed."
It's called RACIAL REFUSAL
'Racial refusal' is a phrase that refers to the practice of patients and / or family members who refuse care from particular nurses, physicians, nursing assistants, techs and other types of healthcare workers due to the caregiver's racial-ethnic background.