Rn:$ 25, 000 may be better used to train health care administration, leadership
Most of a position “racial treatment” offer will be spent on a “diversity, capital, and addition” expert for Elmhurst University’s medical school, according to documents shared with , The College Fix.
According to the offer acceptance letter, the Illinois Department of Human Services and YWCA Northwestern Illinois both funded the Healing Illinois offer. The goal is to finance projects supporting “racial cure” and “racial collateral”.
As The Fix recently reported, the Illinois state plans to spend up to$ 4.5 million on “anti- prejudice” and “racial treatment” offers like the one to Elmhurst. The university received$ 25, 000 through the program in March to “ensure its Master of Science in Nursing ( MSN) curriculum fully integrates diversity, equity and inclusion concepts”.
Of that complete,$ 17, 000 will be used to get an outside consultant, while the remaining$ 8, 000 will be spent on instructors stipends for education work, according to the school’s grant program, obtained by Do No Harm and shared with The Fix.
Since the school currently has a vice chairman of capital and participation, Laura Morgan, the chief of staff at Do No Harm, which opposes DEI in care, raised concerns about the money being generally being spent on an outside consultant.
Morgan, a registered nurse, stated to The Fix in a phone interview that she fears the consultant wo n’t be familiar with nursing procedures and the program at the university.
In a mentor program for medical, some students train to be educators, managers, and administrators, she said. Morgan told The Fix that the grant money would be put to better use when teaching students how to lead and manage a department.
A nursing school or any university could use$ 25,000 to help their nurses become more knowledgeable about the subjects that their programs are supposed to teach them, according to Morgan. Use money to create something that will help them learn something of value.
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According to Elmhurst’s grant application, the money will be used to fund a two- part project: “first, the creation and definitions of DEI concepts and second, the curriculum work to measure and revise content for full integration of defined DEI concepts”.
Overall, the application states that the goal is to “facilitate a structured and ongoing improvement plan to fully integrate DEI across curriculum and levels of study.” This will help nursing faculty to give students tools to “expand and apply their understanding of equity, inclusivity, and belonging in their courses and pedagogy”, it states.
Three emailed requests for comment from the university media relations did not respond to them in the last three weeks. The Fix inquired about the university’s position on viewpoint diversity and whether it has received criticism for the grant project from staff, faculty, or students.
The grant program addresses “racial healing” and” the underlying systems that have allowed the conditions where vast racial disparities are allowed to exist,” according to the Illinois Department of Human Services.
In addition, The Fix has emailed IDHS numerous times in the last two weeks to inquire as to why it thinks “racial healing” is a top priority and how it would respond to those who think these programs advance an ideological agenda.
According to Morgan, other universities are “backing away” from DEI in states like Tennessee, Texas, and Utah, but Illinois is doubling down and imposing the ideology on students into their careers.
She claimed that while the DEI ideology emphasizes how people think and feel, healthcare is supposed to be grounded in science and evidence.
Morgan said the situation can be challenging for nursing students who disagree with DEI.
She told The Fix,” Either there is going to be coursework that they object to, it is going to be difficult to get through school, or they are going to work at an employer that makes them accept that kind of training as a condition of employment.”
According to Morgan,” Nursing students need to be informed about what their chosen nursing school’s curricula is doing with these types of concepts.”
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