The Invisible Black Nurse

The Invisible Black Nurse emerged from research grounded in historical reviews and contemporary perspectives that describe the experiences of Black nurses as their various roles as clinicians, educators, administrators and researchers. Recurring themes include feeling invisible, feeling devalued and being held to a higher standards than their peers in their professional role. She has presented her research at various professionaly nursing conferences and the Association of Psychiagtric Nursing. Her mission is to eliminate the phenomenon of "nurses eating their young" specifically nurses of color. Book Review 1: Black nurse's experiences with Racism may be normalized to the point of being invisible in various health care systems. Dr. Ora Robinson removes the invisibility by bringing the experiences of these nurses into full view. She speaks to the disproportionate negative impacts of racism as experienced by Black nurses. Each page turned, ushers the reader deeper into the world as experienced by the invisible Black nurse. -- Dr. Gloria J. Willingham-Toure", PhD, MNSc, BSN. Book Review 2: I have been acquainted with Dr. Ora Robinson over 20 years. I met her when she applied for a position as a professor in the Nursing Program. Our paths have crossed several times as fellow educators and in professional organizations. We have discussed and experienced the burden of racism disproportionately felt in various areas of the healthcare community. Having realized that this burden is too often silenced or ignored resulting in the Black nurse becoming invisible, Dr. Robinson began to explore and study the phenomenon. With sampling, she acquired evidence to begin addressing audiences. With information presented here, nurses will be inspired and encouraged to evaluate the visibility of all. -- Barbara Napper, MS, Ed. MSN, RN

The Invisible Black Nurse, Navigating RACE-isms, A Guide on Becoming Visible, Love Covers all takes the reader on a historical and contemporary journey of what it was like to be a Black nurse in American. The intent of this book to bring about awareness and healing through an authentic discussion on racism in nursing. This book will describe African American/Black nurses who experienced the phenomenon of being invisible. A collection of stories will be integrated to create an immersion experiences for the reader too experience racial bullying as an African American/Black nurse. The book will provoke anger and empathy leading to forgiveness. The book will offer strategies of resilience and coping to navigate racism and other isms, a guide to leverage your professional expertise, and strategies to become visible. The invisible Black nurse emerged from powerful research grounded in historical reviews and contemporary perspectives that describes the experiences of Black nurses at the bedside, academia and administration. The book presents a collection of transgenerational narratives recounting their experiences with racial bullying in their professional role. Stories include experiences of being horizontally abuse, being held to a higher standard and being devalued through the de-legitimization of their professional nursing role. The book is descriptive and prescriptive on ways to emerge visible in a hostile environment. The reader will be transformed as they turn the pages and gain insights into what it is like to walk in the shoes of a Black Registered nurse and its impact on our physical health, mental health, psychological well-being and spiritual health. Interventions are grounded in positive psychology and appreciative inquiry to create a safe environment for discourse. The reader will be taken on an emotional roller coaster as you turn the pages and read the stories of humiliation, resilience, and coping. Faith based strategies are integrated throughout as this was the recurring theme of resilience from the research findings. Lastly, the book offers the reader an opportunity to engage in self-reflection on the stories and how it made them feel, lessons learned and how to move forward. Enjoy the read.

“Dr. Mercy Ngosa Mumba provides critically insightful perspectives on becoming an academic in the US.” –Kenneth K. Mwenda, PhD, LLD, DSc(Econ) Rhodes Scholar Program Manager, The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA Extraordinary Professor of Law, University of Lusaka, Zambia “Dr. Mumba… provides a window into academia and is bursting with pragmatic information and real-world examples of what to expect and how to navigate a successful and balanced academic career.” –Richard Ricciardi, PhD, CRNP Professor, George Washington University Past President, Sigma Jumpstart Your Career in Education and Research Starting any new professional endeavor can be as challenging and overwhelming as it is exciting. Moving from practice to education can further amplify the uncertainty. Academia is a whole different world, which means a unique new culture, different priorities, and a complete change in your day-to-day work life. Lucky for your soon-to-be students, you already know what it takes to be a strong, competent clinician. You just need to transfer that knowledge to future nursing professionals. A Nurse’s Step-by-Step Guide to Transitioning to an Academic Role gives you a detailed road map for a successful transition to academia. Using a conversational tone and highly practical tools, author Mercy Ngosa Mumba explains how to: -Understand different types of academic appointments -Connect with colleagues and students -Juggle various academic responsibilities -Manage your time and stress -Contribute to a more equitable institutional culture Table of Contents Part I: Welcome to Academia Chapter 1: Becoming an Educator Chapter 2: Academic Teaching Is an Art Chapter 3: Secrets of Networking and Collaboration in Academia Chapter 4: Service and Academic Citizenship Part II: Choosing the Best Role for You Chapter 5: So You’ve Chosen Tenure Track: Finding the Right College for You Chapter 6: Becoming a Nurse Researcher and Scientist Chapter 7: Considerations for Transitioning to a Clinical Faculty Role Part III: It Starts and Ends With You: Mind, Body, and Soul Chapter 8: Othering in Academia: An Imperative for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chapter 9: Stress Management 101 Chapter 10: Thriving in Academia Appendices A: Application Process B: Sample Lesson Plan C: Service Commitment Contract Hours

Nursing is typically understood, and understands itself, as a care-giving occupation. It is through its relationships with patients – whether these are absent, present, good, bad or indifferent – that modern day nursing is defined. Yet nursing work extends far beyond direct patient care activities. Across the spectrum of locales in which they are employed, nurses, in numerous ways, support and sustain the delivery and organisation of health services. In recent history, however, this wider work has generally been regarded as at best an adjunct to the core nursing function, and at worse responsible for taking nurses away from their ‘real work’ with patients. Beyond its identity as the ‘other’ to care-giving, little is known about this element of nursing practice. Drawing on extensive observational research of the everyday work in a UK hospital, and insights from practice-based approaches and actor network theory, the aim of this book is to lay the empirical and theoretical foundations for a reappraisal of the nursing contribution to society by shining a light on this invisible aspect of nurses’ work. Nurses, it is argued, can be understood as focal actors in health systems and through myriad processes of ‘translational mobilisation’ sustain the networks through which care is organised. Not only is this work an essential driver of action, it also operates as a powerful countervailing force to the centrifugal tendencies inherent in healthcare organisations which, for all their gloss of order and rationality, are in reality very loose arrangements. The Invisible Work of Nurses will be interest to academics and students across a number of fields, including nursing, medical sociology, organisational studies, health management, science and technology studies, and improvement science.

Every day, hospital nurses must negotiate intimate trust and intimate conflict in an effort to provide quality health care. However, interactions between nurses and patients—which often require issues of privacy—are sometimes made more uncomfortable with inappropriate behavior, as when a patient has a racist and/or sexist outburst. Not all nurses are prepared to handle such intimacy, but they can all learn how to "be caring." In Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines, Lisa Ruchti carefully examines this fragile relationship between intimacy and professional care, and provides a language for patients, nurses, and administrators to teach, conduct, and advocate for knowledgeable and skilled intimate care in a hospital setting. She also recommends best training practices and practical and effective policy changes to handle conflicts. Ruchti shows that "caring" is not just a personality characteristic but is work that is structured by intersections of race, gender, and nationality.

Julia Hallam considers the 'image' of nursing and how it has been constructed, contributing to the debates surrounding gender and occupational identity.

Rooted in the ways Black women understand their lives, this collection archives practices of healing, mothering, and advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognizing that Black women have been living in pandemics as far back as colonialism and enslavement, this volume acknowledges that records of the past—from the 1918 flu pandemic to the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic—often erase the existence and experiences of Black women as a whole. Writing against this archival erasure, this collection consciously recenters the real-time experiences and perspectives of care, policy concerns, grief, and joy of Black women throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Nineteen contributors from interdisciplinary fields and diverse backgrounds explore Black feminine community, consciousness, ethics of care, spirituality, and social critique. They situate Black women’s multidimensional experiences with COVID-19 and other violences that affect their lives. The stories they tell are connected and interwoven, bound together by anti-Black gendered COVID necropolitics and commitments to creating new spaces for breathing, healing, and wellness. Ultimately, this time-warping analysis shows how Black women imagine a more just society, rapidly adapt to changing experiences, and innovate ethics of care even in the midst of physical distancing, which can be instructive for thinking of new ways of living both during and beyond the era of COVID-19. Contributors Shamara Wyllie Alhassan Sharnnia Artis Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards Candace S. Brown Jenny Douglas Kaja Dunn Onisha Etkins Rhonda M. Gonzales Endia Hayes Ashley E. Hollingshead Kendra Jason Julia S. Jordan-Zachery Stacie LeSure Janaka B. Lewis Michelle Meggs Nitya Mehrotra Sherine Andreine Powerful Marjorie Shavers Breauna Marie Spencer Tehia Starker Glass Amber Walker