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Congress 2023 - Reading Lists

Unconscious Bias (Matter for Discussion)

Submitted by the RCN Eastern Board.

That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses how it can support and improve awareness of unconscious bias within health care.

More information can be found on the RCN Congress pages: https://www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Agenda

Please see below for some relevant resources you might like to look at ahead of the debate.

Reading List - Unconscious Bias (Matter for Discussion)

Aubeeluck A, Waterall J and Lymn J (2017) The unconscious bias that’s keeping men out of nursing, Nursing standard, 32(13), pp. 18–20.
Bucknor-Ferron P and Zagaja L (2016) Five strategies to combat unconscious bias, Nursing (Jenkintown, Pa.), 46(11), pp. 61–62.
Clendon J (2020) Talking about unconscious bias, Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z. : 1995), 26(10), pp. 32–33.
Kachalia A, Sivashanker K, Rexrode K and Nour N (2019) Healthcare portraiture and unconscious bias, BMJ (Online), 365(Journal Article), pp. l1668.
Kale S and Hong C S (2017) Cultural sensitivity, unconscious bias and quality of health care, Journal of family health, 27(2), pp. 28–31.
Noone J and Najjar R H (2021) Minimizing Unconscious Bias in nursing school admission, The Journal of nursing education, 60(6), pp. 317–323.
Oxtoby K (2020) How unconscious bias can discriminate against patients and affect their care, BMJ (Online), 371(Journal Article), pp. m4152.
Schultz P L and Baker J (2017) Teaching strategies to increase nursing student acceptance and management of unconscious bias, The Journal of nursing education, 56(11), pp. 692–696.