The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25, 2020, prompted a reckoning at the UVA School of Nursing, making clear that the School of Nursing were not making the deep substantive changes necessary to truly become an antiracist school. During summer 2020, an Antiracism Working Group comprised of students, faculty and staff in the School of Nursing mobilized and met weekly throughout the summer and into the fall to develop further concrete actions to address racism and other bias in the hospital. The goal of this student-led group aimed to prepare students and faculty to address racism and other forms of bias, as a target of, witness to, or perpetrator of this behavior in clinical settings. The group felt it to be essential for nursing students and other stakeholders to have a background understanding of the history of race and racism in our local context before engaging in clinical practice.
2020 - October 2nd
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