The Nursing Network: Bias, Barriers, and Breakthroughs in Care

There is a critical and ongoing need to educate nurses and nurse practitioners, who often form the backbone of patient care delivery, about the presence and impact of unconscious bias in clinical settings. As essential connectors within the healthcare provider network, nurses are uniquely positioned to foster trust, deliver culturally responsive care, and advocate for patients across diverse backgrounds. Yet, despite increasing awareness of disparities that affect health outcomes among a broad range of patient populations, many frontline and administrative professionals still lack the tools, training, and institutional frameworks necessary to address these inequities in a sustained and meaningful way.

Without awareness, these unconscious biases may consistently contribute to misdiagnoses, decreased patient trust, reduced treatment adherence, and overall inequitable care delivery.

Empowering nurses with targeted educational interventions is therefore essential — not only to equip them with the competencies needed to address these challenges — but also to leverage their vital role in advancing equitable healthcare delivery and improving outcomes for all patients, regardless of background or setting.

In this CME Outfitters live webcast, expert faculty will examine how unconscious bias affects nursing care and patient outcomes across varied clinical environments. They will provide strategies to deliver culturally sensitive care by leveraging the nursing network’s unique capacity to share best practices, amplify each patient’s voice, and address education, health literacy, and social drivers of health.

At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to better:

• Identify how unconscious bias affects nursing care and patient outcomes across diverse clinical settings
• Implement strategies to deliver culturally sensitive care by leveraging the nursing network’s role in sharing best practices, amplifying patient voice, and addressing education, health literacy, and social drivers of health

Supported by an educational grant provided by Johnson & Johnson. it currently reads Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc

Nurse practitioners (NPs), nurses, nurse navigators, front office staff, health care administrators, executives, support staff, and patients

It is the policy of CME Outfitters, LLC, to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, and scientific rigor and integrity in all of their CE activities. Faculty must disclose to the participants any relationships with commercial companies whose products or devices may be mentioned in faculty presentations, or with the commercial supporter of this CE activity. CME Outfitters, LLC, has evaluated, identified, and mitigated any potential conflicts of interest through a rigorous content validation procedure, use of evidence-based data/research, and a multidisciplinary peer review process. The following information is for participant information only. It is not assumed that these relationships will have a negative impact on the presentations.

Dr. Peek reports no financial relationships to disclose.

Ms. Gibson reports no financial relationships to disclose.

Dr. Sherry reports no financial relationships to disclose.

The following individuals have no financial relationships to disclose:

Jessica Giddens, DNP, APRN, FPMHNP-BC, RN-BC (Peer Reviewer)
Evan Luberger (Planning Committee)
Estelle Perera (Planning Committee)
Scott J. Hershman, MD, FACEHP, CHCP (Planning Committee)
Sandra Caballero, PharmD (Planning Committee)
Sharon Tordoff (Planning Committee)

*All identified conflicts of interest have been mitigated.

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Faculty of this CME/CE activity may include discussions of products or devices that are not currently labeled for use by the FDA. The faculty have been informed of their responsibility to disclose to the audience if they will be discussing off-label or investigational uses (any uses not approved by the FDA) of products or devices. CME Outfitters, LLC, the faculty, planners, and reviewers do not endorse the use of any product outside of the FDA labeled indications. Medical professionals should not utilize the procedures, products, or diagnosis techniques discussed during this activity without evaluation of their patient for contraindications or dangers of use.

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