School of Nursing

Diversity Resources

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OHSU School of Nursing is committed to sustaining a diverse learning community of students, faculty, and staff across programs and campuses and within educational, clinical practice, and research partnerships.

OHSU School of Nursing is committed to achieving diversity and equity and believes it is fundamental to our educational mission. The School of Nursing incorporates a practice of holistic admission review to recruit a diverse student body, provides academic, financial, and social resources to support the success of all students, and strives to enhance and sustain a climate of inclusion within all missions of the School statewide. We believe that the quality of learning in nursing education is enhanced by diverse perspectives and relationships and through appreciation of the full range of human experiences. We are all learners in the School of Nursing community and committed to addressing social justice for each other, our patients, and members of our interprofessional teams.

Through strategic alliances, community building, and forums on issues affecting the changing demographics across the state of Oregon and the rest of the country, OHSU School of Nursing pledges its commitment to the education of nurses and nurse leaders that will provide excellent and culturally appropriate care to underserved, vulnerable, and ethnic populations.

Diversity, equity and inclusion resource books

  • Bowen Matthew, D. (2015). Just medicine, a cure for racial inequality in American health care. New York: NYU Press.
  • Brown, J. (2019). How to be an Inclusive Leader. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
  • Diangelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism.  Boston:  Beacon Press.
  • Eberhardt, J.L. (2019). Biased: Uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, or do. New York: Viking.
  • Johnson, A. G. (2006). Privilege, power and difference, second edition. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Kendi, I.K. (2019). How to be an antiracist. New York: One World. 
  • Irving, Debby. (2014). Waking up white: and finding myself in the story of race. Chicago: Elephant Room Press.
  • McGhee, H. (2021). The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. One World.
  • Metzl, J.M. (2019). Dying of whiteness: How the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland. New York:  Basic Books.
  • Saad, L. F. (2020). Me and white supremacy: Combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor.  Sourcebooks.
  • Skloot, R. (2011). The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown Publishers.
  • Steele, C.M. (2010). Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do.  New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
  • Sue, D.W.  (2015). Race talk and the conspiracy of silence: Understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race.  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Tweedy, Damon. (2015). Black man in a white coat. New York: Picador.
  • Washington, H. A. (2008). Medical Apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present. New York: Harlem Moon.
  • Wilkerson, I. (2020). Caste: The Origins of our Discontents. Random House.
  • Williams, D. (2013). Strategic Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education. Stylus Publishing.
  • White, A. (2011). Seeing patients: Unconscious bias in health care. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.