How You Can Have a Direct Impact on Reducing the Devastating Racial Disparities of COVID-19
Posted almost 4 years ago by Marci Newcome
The latest webinar in ANA's hihgly successful COVID-19 Webinar Series -- reaching 130,000 nurses
How You Can Have a Direct Impact on Reducing
The Devastating Racial Disparities of COVID-19
The numbers are stark: Black Americans represent 13% of the population but they have suffered 23% of COVID-19 deaths. Native Americans are also suffering much greater incidence of COVID-19 deaths.
Nurses are in the key position to positively impact these COVID-19 disparities.
A FREE, On-Demand Webinar for ALL Nurses
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A link to this 60-minute on-demand webinar will be emailed to all registrants the week of June 8.
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Registration is FREE for both ANA members and non-members.
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Racial Health Disparities are not new to the U.S. health care system. But now more than ever, you can have a direct and lifesaving impact on the recognition, care and treatment, and recovery from COVID-19 in these vulnerable populations.
Program content provides clarity on the stark challenges faced by Black and Native American people during the pandemic. After viewing this on-demand webinar, you will have very specific actions you can take immediately to save more lives.
Topics include:
- The magnitude and origins of COVID-19 racial disparities
- Addressing the roots of the problem
- Facing Implicit Bias: An effort we all must make
- How to translate insight and knowledge into lifesaving actions
- Points of intervention when caring for a COVID-19 patient and how you can make an impact each step of the way
When the history of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, racial disparities may be its saddest and most avoidable chapter. View this webinar and discover how you can take actions now to help to turn this dire situation around.
Who should attend: ALL NURSES IN ALL SETTINGS
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The webinars in the ANA COVID-19 series cover different aspects of this crisis and provide up-to-date information that can be applied immediately in your care of COVID-19 patients. Each of these approximately 60-minute webinars has been developed and recorded in the last few weeks.
The other webinars in the ANA COVID-19 Webinar Series are:
- How to Survive the Pandemic with An Unbroken Spirit: Actions to Take Right Now to Stay Strong and Focused
- How to Respond to Ethical Challenges and Moral Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Be Confident Protecting Yourself and Providing the Best Care to Your Patients during this COVID-19 Pandemic (focus on PPE)
- Ventilator Management: Essential Skills for Non-ICU Nurses
Click the link below to register for all five webinars in the COVID-19 Series or pick the ones most relevant to you: