Understanding and addressing whiteness in health assessment: Nursing education

<p dir="ltr">Nursing, like other professions and institutions, has long been grounded in racist systems, policies, and practices. Oftentimes, this is difficult for nurses and educators to accept because it is antithetical to our perception of nursing as a moral and ethical profession. For us to accept that systemic racism has infiltrated the nursing profession involves some level of personal ownership in terms of our own role engaging in the associated practices and policies. It is our responsibility as nurse educators to be accountable for how we have been complicit in maintaining these systems, policies, and practices (Iheduru-Anderson and Waite, 2022). Systemic racist practices in nursing education can be obscured by inherent biases that go unnoticed, unaddressed, and have severe repercussions in terms of health inequities. Certain health assessment practices are examples of how systemic racism appears in nursing education.</p>