Remember Icilda? The 70 year old Black nurse who saved her money after decades of work in #NHS to buy a care home? Look what the white #racists in her community did. Read the details & see video in this @NursesEquality blog. Disgusting & dehumanising‼️😔
🔗 equality4blacknurses.com/post/disturbin…




In July 2022, Icilda, a resilient 70 yr old nurse, fulfilled her lifelong dream of owning a care home, only to find herself trapped in a nightmarish ordeal just 1 yr later. But this isn’t just any story; it's a disheartening narrative woven with the threads of racial injustice 1/

The regulator for nurses & midwives called the Nursing & Midwifery Council #NMC, @nmcnews, has been accused of #institutional #racism. Read shocking examples of #racism to #GlobalMajority #patients & #nurses described in this @Independent article in 🧵

independent.co.uk/news/health/ra… 1️⃣ “Nurses accused of tying a Sikh patient’s beard with plastic gloves, leaving him in his own urine & offering him food he couldn’t eat for religious reasons were allowed to carry on working despite man complaining about discrimination in a note on his deathbed”
Disgusting‼️

Prof ⁦@CamaraJones⁩ said we have to be *actively* #ANTIRACISM (rather than antiracist).

She said the 4 roots of #RacismDenial are ⤵️

1️⃣ Narrow focus on the individual
2️⃣ A-historical stance
3️⃣ The myth of meritocracy
4️⃣ White supremacist ideology Roots of #RacismDenial by Prof @CamaraJones

1️⃣ Narrow focus on the individual
▪ Self-interest narrowly defined
▪ Limited sense of interdependence
▪ Limited sense of collective efficacy
▪ Systems and structures as invisible or irrelevant

#InstitutionalBetrayal is failure to prevent or respond supportively or take appropriate action to protect employees from wrongdoings within institution wrt inequity, discrimination, bullying & retaliation

Commonly happens to #NHS staff

Outcome is psychological & physical harm I believe that #SamirahShaikh, #MichelleCox, #ValentineUdoye & #OmerKarim & many more people in our #NHS experienced the most *horrific* #InstitutionalBetrayal from ⤵️

@NHSEngland
@NHSuk
@NHSE_WTE
@gmcuk
@Moorfields

THIS‼️ is just the tip of the iceberg