A culture of belonging is essential in the fight for diversity in the medical industry
In the past decade, and especially in the last five years, healthcare has been working to crack the code of embedding antiracism into the fabric of the industry through workforce diversity.
But far from the quotas sometimes conjured when imagining healthcare’s DEI workforce initiatives, the road to a more just and antiracist healthcare workforce must be paved with empathy, understanding, and a culture of belonging, according to G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN, the senior equity advisory for the National Commission in Addressing Racism in Nursing for the American Nurses Association (ANA).