Research demonstrates that healthcare professionals are just as susceptible to implicit, or unconscious, bias as the general population. It also shows that implicit bias impacts the quality of patient care. An expert explains how we can overcome the biases we unintentionally carry.

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This is episode 2  of the series: What Lies Beneath: Implicit Bias in Healthcare

As much as we, as healthcare professionals, believe in and support the concept of equity in the care we provide, we are just as saddled with deeply embedded stereotypes as anyone else. We all carry implicit biases –learned but unconscious views about particular people. To provide better patient care and improve outcomes, we can learn to recognize and reduce our unintentional preconceptions.

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Series: What Lies Beneath: Implicit Bias in Healthcare

Dr. Benjamin D. Reese, Jr., PsyD, returns with candid and enlightening answers to healthcare professionals’ questions about implicit bias in the workplace.

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This is episode 3 of the series: What Lies Beneath: Implicit Bias in Healthcare

As much as we, as healthcare professionals, believe in and support the concept of equity in the care we provide, we are just as saddled with deeply embedded stereotypes as anyone else. We all carry implicit biases –learned but unconscious views about particular people. To provide better patient care and improve outcomes, we can learn to recognize and reduce our unintentional preconceptions.

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: What Lies Beneath: Implicit Bias in Healthcare

Keeping up with COVID-19 variants has been challenging for healthcare professionals, not to mention the public at large. Listen to learn distinctions between variants and strains of SARS-CoV-2 — plus how they got the names we’ve come to know so well.

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This is Episode 1 of the series:  No Longer Greek to You: Understanding COVID-19 Variants

 The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a novel virus, but it is not unique as far as virus behavior goes. It has done what all viruses do: evolve into variants. From alpha to omicron, this podcast series describes SARS-CoV-2 variants and the impact of their ever-changing nature on COVID-19 vaccines.

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Series: No Longer Greek to You: Understanding COVID-19 Variants

Close on the heels of COVID-19’s Delta variant came Omicron and its unique set of challenges. An internationally known expert shared the data behind Omicron’s rise and its effect on cases, hospitalizations, and the efficacy of available vaccines.

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This is episode 2 of the series: No Longer Greek to You: Understanding COVID-19 Variants

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a novel virus, but it is not unique as far as virus behavior goes. It has done what all viruses do: evolve into variants. From alpha to omicron, this podcast series describes SARS-CoV-2 variants and the impact of their ever-changing nature on COVID-19 vaccines.

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Series: No Longer Greek to You: Understanding COVID-19 Variants

Among some patients and providers alike, skepticism has surrounded the development of vaccines for COVID-19 and how they work. Help your patients and colleagues overcome their doubts with state-of-the-science information.

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This is episode 1 of the series:  Be COVID Correct: Vaccine Facts vs. Fiction
 
Medical miracle or rushed experiment? Since mRNA and other COVID-19 vaccines became available under emergency use authorization and later as fully Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccines, clinicians faced an onslaught of emergent information — and misinformation — about their development, use, and efficacy. In a two-part series, an expert settles the science behind the vaccines.
 
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Series: Be COVID Correct: Vaccine Facts vs. Fiction

Of all the misconceptions that surrounded COVID-19 vaccines, anecdotal reports of side effects captured Americans’ imaginations. But how sound were these stories, from a statistical standpoint? An internationally known expert crunches the numbers on vaccine adverse events to reveal the reality.

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This is episode 2 of the series:  Be COVID Correct: Vaccine Facts vs. Fiction
 
Medical miracle or rushed experiment? Since mRNA and other COVID-19 vaccines became available under emergency use authorization and later as fully Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccines, clinicians faced an onslaught of emergent information — and misinformation — about their development, use, and efficacy. In a two-part series, an expert settles the science behind the vaccines.
 
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Series: Be COVID Correct: Vaccine Facts vs. Fiction

Who gets Long COVID and why? Do masks still work as a preventive tool? What about other measures patients have heard of or tried, such as zinc or vitamin D? An expert sifts through common questions – and misconceptions.

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This is episode 1 of the series:   COVID-19’s Lingering Tail: Long COVID’s Symptom Burden and Treatment Options

The tale of havoc wrought by COVID-19 includes a tail — the persistent health effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection known collectively as Long COVID. Emerging research shows that up to 30% of people who survive COVID-19 infection demonstrate lingering symptoms of the disease. That’s tens of thousands of patients who will potentially be seen across healthcare settings — and who will need well-informed healthcare professionals to diagnose and treat their illness.

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Series: COVID-19’s Lingering Tail: Long COVID’s Symptom Burden and Treatment Options

As our society learns to live with potential COVID-19 infection, scores of Americans live with something else: Fatigue, dyspnea, headaches, insomnia, brain fog, and other debilitating symptoms of infection. How do healthcare professionals respond to the needs of so-called COVID long haulers? With validation of symptoms and clear understanding of treatment options.

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This is episode 2 of the series:   COVID-19’s Lingering Tail: Long COVID’s Symptom Burden and Treatment Options

The tale of havoc wrought by COVID-19 includes a tail — the persistent health effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection known collectively as Long COVID. Emerging research shows that up to 30% of people who survive COVID-19 infection demonstrate lingering symptoms of the disease. That’s tens of thousands of patients who will potentially be seen across healthcare settings — and who will need well-informed healthcare professionals to diagnose and treat their illness.

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Series: COVID-19’s Lingering Tail: Long COVID’s Symptom Burden and Treatment Options

It has been said that caring for others requires caring for oneself. Self-compassion is an essential component of self-care for nurses. Trish Hart, founder and stress management specialist for Hart Mind Body Solutions, explains how nurses can offer the same tender treatment to themselves as they do their patients.

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Supported by The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Unprocessed moral distress can threaten the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of nurses. Internationally recognized nurse ethicist Cynda Hylton Rushton discusses how developing moral resilience can help nurses thrive, even when faced with overwhelming ethical dilemmas. Dr. Rushton is professor clinical ethics at Johns Hopkins School of nursing and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital Ethics Consultation Service.

Get more expert advice for nurses and free tools to support your well-being at www.hopefornursing.com.

Supported by The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation