I-Search

During the second week of classes, my one nursing professor showed our class a video depicting racial disparities and the nurse's role as an advocate. I thought it would be a great topic to digress on by doing research and discovering interventions that can be used to cease the racial gaps, in particular by nurses. This particular research is important to me because it is part of society that we have been facing for years and it still surprises me that such racial inequality still exists. Also it is something that I as a future nurse will have to face everyday. I found a variety of sources, many being scholarly articles. My views haven't necessarily changed after doing the research; it is more that my awareness of the problem has dramatically increased. I am using several resources including, surveys and interviews to gain a better insight on what people think about this topic and why they think it is still occurring at such a high rate. I am interviewing 4 people 1 who is my nursing professor and 3-4 other nursing students and also sending several surveys out to my other nursing peers. Researching this topic has opened my eyes to a whole new aspect of inequality. I never realized how prevalent racial disparities in the healthcare field were. Along with the research I have also discovered many interventions that would allow for the problem to decrease, such as providing translation services to patients and also making the nurses aware of his/her own prejudices.