What is it about?
Black and minority ethnic nurses and midwives working in the United Kingdom are more likely to be disciplined and less likely to receive promotion and career progression than their white counterparts. This literature review explores the experiences of this group to try and understand how this situation has arisen.
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Why is it important?
The National Health Service implemented a Race Equality Action Plan in 2004 but a lack of BME nurses and midwives in senior positions persists and there is evidence that this group continue to experience racism despite working in one of the most ethnically diverse workforces in the country. It is important to understand the lived experiences of BME nurses and midwives in order to be able to address this inequity.
Perspectives
This literature review emerged as a result of reading a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Royal College of Midwives which found that black midwives are twice as likely to be disciplined as their white counterparts. This evidence seemed shocking and prompted me to try and understand how this situation could have arisen in order to ensure I wasn't unwittingly perpetuating this cycle of oppression.
Mr John J Pendleton
University of Northampton
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This page is a summary of: The experiences of black and minority ethnic nurses working in the UK, British Journal of Nursing, January 2017, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2017.26.1.37.
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