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Nurse to Nursing Student Barriers and Bias

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This chapter contains a case study of a nursing student experiencing implicit racial bias from the professional nurse in the emergency department.

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  1. University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, USA

    Katherine Sullivan

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  1. Office for Diversity and Equity and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Marcus L. Martin

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Sheryl Heron

  3. Department of Medicine, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Lisa Moreno-Walton

  4. Office for Diversity and Equity, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Michelle Strickland

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Sullivan, K. (2019). Nurse to Nursing Student Barriers and Bias. In: Martin, M.L., Heron, S., Moreno-Walton, L., Strickland, M. (eds) Diversity and Inclusion in Quality Patient Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92762-6_39

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