Implicit Bias Reflection

Implicit bias (also called unconscious bias) refers to attitudes and beliefs that occur outside of our conscious awareness and control. In healthcare, it is important for nurses and all healthcare professionals to practice without bias to ensure excellent quality and equitable healthcare is being delivered to all. In healthcare, nurses (along with all healthcare professionals) need to be aware of their implicit biases so that they can acknowledge, reflect, and find ways to overcome the impact of their biases. This is one strategy to mitigate healthcare disparities. This assignment may seem familiar to you; however, two tests are new. Some of you are repeating the tests to determine if there is a difference in earlier findings. The assignment requires students to complete the Implicit Association Test by Harvard University. Link to the Implicit Association Test by Harvard University website: Select a Test (harvard.edu)

The following tests should be completed in full (about 10 minutes each).

1.

Race

2.

Sexuality

3.

Weight

4.

Weapons

5.

Disability

6.

Transgender

7.

Arab

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Muslim

Upon completion of the tests, students should review and save their findings and complete a reflection about insights into the findings, compare and contrast previous years findings for the same tests, and future steps that you personally will take to address what you discovered. Reflective papers should be written in first person and use of subheadings to follow APA. Assignment GenAI Guidelines: You must not use AI at any point during this assignment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge (Perkins, et al., 2024). While working in a trusting and collegial atmosphere it is preferred, if, for any reason, your work appears to be driven by or assisted by GenAI tools, there will be consequences for that action. Consequences may include, among others, discussion with faculty, an opportunity to re-do the assignment, an automatic loss of points or failing grade on the assignment, and/or elevation to university-level consequences for academic dishonesty.

I expect each component to be well written starting with an overall interpretation of your results, how they compare with prior results and your prespective as to what experiences or thoughts may have contributed to the results, who you are as an individal. Include a title page with APA format.

Use these results below and reflect on all 7 of them with future strategies for growth:

You were about equally fast at sorting ‘Fat people’ with ‘Bad words’ and ‘Thin people’ with ‘Good words’ and at sorting ‘Thin people’ with ‘Bad words’ and ‘Fat people’ with ‘Good words’.

You were much faster at sorting ‘Black people’ with ‘Bad’ and ‘White people’ with ‘Good’ than ‘White people’ with ‘Bad’ and ‘Black people’ with ‘Good’

You were about equally fast at sorting ‘Gay people’ with ‘Bad’ and ‘Straight people’ with ‘Good’ and at sorting ‘Straight people’ with ‘Bad’ and ‘Gay people’ with ‘Good’.

You were about equally fast at sorting ‘White Americas’ with ‘Harmless objects and ‘Black Americans’ with ‘Weapons’ and at sorting ‘Black Americans’ with ‘Harmless objects and ‘White Americans’ with ‘Weapons’.

You were about equally fast at sorting ‘Disabled Persons’ with ‘Bad’ and ‘Abled Persons’ with ‘Good’ and at sorting ‘Abled Persons’ with ‘Bad’ and ‘Disabled Persons’ with ‘Good’.

You were about equally fast at sorting ‘Arab Muslims’ with ‘Bad’ and ‘Other People’ with ‘Good’ and at sorting ‘Other People’ with ‘Bad’ and ‘Arab Muslims’ with ‘Good’.

You were much faster at sorting ‘Transgender People’ with ‘Bad words’ and ‘Cisgender people’ with ‘Good words’ than ‘Cisgender People’ with ‘Bad Words’ and ‘Transgender People with ‘Good Words’