‘There’s urgent need to not only recruit but to retain talented nurses of color.’
A potent “dual pandemic” of COVID-19 worries and workplace racism heightened the emotional distress felt by nurses of color, according to a newly published study of nurses at New Jersey hospitals conducted in fall of 2020.
While all nurses reported some experience of racism in the workplace, nurses of color reported experiencing higher levels of workplace racism compared to white nurses, the study found. They also reported higher levels of overall worry about the coronavirus and emotional distress. The same pattern bore out when participants were asked about their perception of a negative racial climate in their organization — that is, the extent to which there were opportunities for promotion, organizational policies that seemed to advantage or disadvantage them, and organization-wide racism.
— Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins, associate dean for the division of nursing science at the Rutgers School of Nursing The study was conducted during a period when COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in New Jersey were trending downward. While the snapshot of nearly 800 nurses may be difficult to generalize beyond the experiences of hospital-based nurses in New Jersey, the findings are consistent with other qualitative and descriptive work reported in national samples, Thomas-Hawkins said.
In the midst of concerns about nursing workforce shortages that predated the pandemic, the study said, these findings point to “the urgent need for a sustained investment in a racially diverse nursing workforce.” Having a racially diverse nursing workforce can boost culturally competent care, improve care delivery and help reduce health disparities, Thomas-Hawkins said.
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