CV NEWS FEED // The Washington, D.C. Board of Nursing has begun incorporating LGBT ideology and implicit bias training into its license renewal program for registered nurses.
A nurse who wished to remain anonymous sent CatholicVote an email previously received from DC Health, which stated that to renew a nursing license, applicants must complete the standard 24 hours of continued education. However, two of the hours must now be LGBT studies.
An additional three hours must be spent on one of 10 public health priority topics identified by the D.C. Director of the Department of Health, one of which is implicit bias.
The nurse pointed out in the email that “there is no requirement to obtain any education hours in the area of a nurse’s specialty.”
“Thus, a patient in telemetry may have a nurse well-versed in preferred pronouns and implicit bias, but have no additional training in telemetry. The same goes for any nursing specialty,” the nurse added.
The nurse also told CatholicVote by email that DC Health instituted another requirement this year in the form of a criminal background check with every license renewal, which occurs every two years.
“With this requirement, we have overturned the burden of proof on the accuser,” the nurse wrote. “Instead, a nurse must prove he or she has never committed a crime prior to renewal. This marks a new benchmark in the United States. Goodbye to ‘innocent until proven guilty’ or the ‘burden of proof’ on the accused. The burden of proof in the case of the DC Board of Nurses is to prove we are innocent.”
The nurse said that the next steps will be to prayerfully discern whether or not to renew the nursing license.
