Earlier in my career as a novice leader in healthcare management, one piece of sage advice that my mentors emphasized was for me to treat everyone fairly and equally. As I advanced in my roles, I kept this advice as a core leadership principle. As a backdraft, in 2002, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care published its seminal work entitled Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare. This publication examined how disparities in treatment occurred in healthcare systems and explored the healthcare experience of persons of color (Smedley et al., 2003). The focus in this era of healthcare was on inequality. More than a decade and half later, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017) published a new report entitled Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. The focus shifted to health equity.

Name                   
Christi Nguyen, DNP, RN, FACHE, NEA-BC

 

Chapter                               
North Central Organization for Nursing Leadership (NCONL)

 

Position on the Chapter Board                  
President