Feature ArticlesAn Overdue Reckoning on Racism in NursingCanty, Lucinda PhD, RN, CNM; Nyirati, Christina PhD, RN; Taylor, Valorie MN, RN; Chinn, Peggy L. PhD, RN, FAAN Author Information Lucinda Canty is an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT. Christina Nyirati is a professor and chair of the Department of Nursing at Heritage University, Toppenish, WA. Valorie Taylor is the nursing clinical director at MultiCare Behavioral Health Services, MultiCare Health System, Tacoma, WA. Peggy L. Chinn is professor emerita at the University of Connecticut School of Nursing, Storrs. Contact author: Lucinda Canty, [email protected]. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise. A podcast with the authors is available at www.ajnonline.com. AJN, American Journal of Nursing: February 2022 - Volume 122 - Issue 2 - p 26-34 doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000819768.01156.d6 Buy Metrics AbstractIn Brief Associated Multimedia In response to the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and with a sense of urgency, the authors created and conducted a unique approach—a reckoning—to confronting racism in nursing. The project began with a series of five online discussions centering on the voices of nurses of color, followed by further ongoing discussions aimed at building antiracist capabilities for all participating nurses. This article describes the implementation and early outcomes of the project and provides its underlying principles, which are based on insights from activists and scholars whose work has focused on antiracist guidelines. The authors discuss a project they launched—often called simply Overdue Reckoning—to encourage honest discussion of racism in nursing and promote meaningful actions all nurses can take to achieve an antiracist nursing profession. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
