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1/ My comments @AACNursing & their revision of the Essentials would be to finally cut the elitist crap & segregation nursing education & practice. This incessant & foolish practice of labeling “professional” nursing practice as occurring only at the BSN & higher is preposterous
2/ Dr. Susan J. Fetzer wrote about the idea of ADN nurses lacking professionalism and found that most of the “professional qualities” that RN to BSN programs were supposed to “bestow” ADN nurses already possessed.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12830685/
3/ And to assume that professionalism comes solely but virtue of a degree... shows poor reasoning.. bc as Dr. Fetzer highlights, uptake of “professional” behaviors is also informed by life experience(s).
4/ I question if the @AACNursing use of professionalism and professional nursing practice is being used as a synonym for align with whiteness and western ideals here? As that word is weaponized in such a way in so many other settings. #NurseTwitter?
5/ We insist in unifying nursing education and practice but one of the largest collegiate nursing education orgs refuses to accredit & ACTIVELY support the community college ADN programs. Program that have created over half of the nurses in this country is disgusting.
6/ Meanwhile, we have plenty of RECENT evidence that tells us of the ONGOING barriers many folks (most marginalized & underrepresented groups) in accessing baccalaureate and graduate education as a whole, not to mention specifically in nursing. Petges 2020 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1557308719302100
7/ Another 2020 published work by Sabio & Petges in @teln_journal further discusses the drawbacks of a BSN-Only Entry model, for now. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1557308719302112
8/ This article Mentions how ND tried this in the 90’s & it failed abysmally & was rescinded.. bc SURPRISE SURPRISE enrollment significantly dropped! Vacancies went unfilled. This is what happens when you try to move ahead and don’t come think with critical theory mindset..
9/ Thanks @uncsheps that BSN only entry could have a significantly negative impact in NC and similar states that are largely rural in a nature. ADN and LPN nurses fill critical roles (at all levels and varied settings) in such places. https://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Richman_NursingWkfcInNC_AcademyHealth_June2016.pdf
9/ Let me post a few pics for y’all to see some important info from the Sheps Center...
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14/ What’s funny to me is @AACNursing has the audacity to have the concept of systems education and approach in the draft, when the fact is it has failed to apply such an approach itself. Particularly seeing as it wants to plow ahead, along w/ @ANANursingWorld ..
15/ w/changes w/o considering or effectively planning for the systemic barriers in addition to personal & situational barriers & how they all intersect. Read: lack of an intersectional understanding and approach. Citing @sandylocks @IMKC_podcast https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/intersectionality/1E5E73E8E54A487B4CCFE85BB299D0E6
15/ In other words DO BETTER... START with letting this white supremacist method of thinking a academic progression BURN & DIE.. maybe in a future where we’ve addressed some of societies moral & systemic issues we can safely have a single-entry, but NOW IS NOT THAT TIME.
16/ So while we are here, we must develop practices that actually include EVERYONE (LPN & ADN Education included) forward, together. Only by us moving forward TOGETHER & not in this fractured separatist mess that we are now, can we ensure that ALL PEOPLE & NURSES Move forward
17/ & if I sound angry, good, cause I am. I’ll be the angry Black Man today. BC y’all keep MESSING THIS UP & in the supposed name of “uplifting our profession”, a lie... its the uplifting of SOME in our profession but the leaving behind of MANY “OTHERS” &
18/ the communities they do/would serve. Shame on y’all.
There are people out here doing the work and who have been saying we needed to change how we do things and what we prioritize, long before me.
There are people out here doing the work and who have been saying we needed to change how we do things and what we prioritize, long before me.
19/Yet here we are... bc of those folks we’ve made some progress, but large scale change continues to elude us on many fronts.
20/end. I would much prefer that we get all new people on board... bc the same folks (same types of folks - primarily white women & men) are the majority in leadership positions... and they’ve left over half (and by extension all) of the nursing workforce out to be ravaged...
And yes! I’ve submitted comments, I’m not just running my mouth here... but they nee to hear this on multiple fronts.
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