Week 5 Discussion: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Nursing Leadership

Discussion Overview: Project Implicit is an international collaborative group of researchers interested in implicit social cognition. The Project Implicit website offers an Implicit Association Test (IAT) from a list of possible topics. For this week’s discussion, visit the website implicit.harvard.eduLinks to an external site. and choose a topic to investigate your own implicit bias.  Click Project Implicit Featured Task to take an available test.  There is no need to create a login.

Note: You are not required to share your results, please do so only if you feel comfortable discussing them in a group setting.

Discussion Prompts: After completing the exercise, reflect upon a situation where you became aware of your own implicit bias or developed awareness of someone else's implicit bias.

• How has your awareness of implicit bias evolved?
• How does this implicit bias impact the delivery of care, and communication within the interdisciplinary team?
• What is one leadership strategy that you could employ to demonstrate cultural humility and positively impact the situation to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion?