Black Nurses Are Traumatized by Racism in Healthcare
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 4, 2023
Being a Black nurse in America sometimes means caring for patients while protecting them from racism at the same time.
This was the case for Naseema McElroy, a California-based labor and delivery nurse who demanded better care for Black moms and was fired shortly after.
“Nobody’s going to change [the medical system] for us,” McElroy, 41, told Word In Black in a video interview. “We have to do it ourselves.”
One day in March 2018, McElroy happened to be on the clock when her friend came in to give birth at . . .
