This Nurse Was Fired for Not Checking A Box
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Imagine being admitted to a hospital for an emergency. Or a routine procedure. One of the first people you meet is a nurse. She’s polite, professional, compassionate and caring. She knows her stuff, and you feel comfortable and confident that you are being well cared for. Do you care, in that moment, if the nurse has “checked a box” saying she accepts her “implicit biases”? And if she had NOT ticked such a box, would you want her fired? Meet a nurse who, after 39 years, was fired for not checking a particular box. She joins Michele.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to sideline sanity with me, Michelle Tofoya, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. |
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| 0:15.9 | They are the ones that I work with. |
| 0:18.5 | Speaking of work, there's one woman who's out of her career that she spent 39 years working at |
| 0:26.6 | as a nurse, one of the most treasured, coveted, honored professions in our society. |
| 0:34.7 | And she was forced out, not because she ever did anything wrong medically. |
| 0:40.3 | Not because she abused a patient. |
| 0:42.9 | Not because she talked back to a surgeon. |
| 0:45.8 | Not because she administered the wrong medicine. |
| 0:48.6 | Not for any of that. |
| 0:50.8 | She was ousted from her job in Texas, college station, to be precise, because she would not check a box on an online course. |
| 1:02.2 | She would not check a box that said that she acknowledged her own implicit bias. |
| 1:09.6 | She would not check that box. She asked people, why do I need to check this |
| 1:16.2 | is this really a fireable offense? I read the coursework, but I refuse to tell you that I have |
| 1:24.5 | implicit bias. I refuse to tell you and check a box that says I accept that I'm inherently racist. |
| 1:31.4 | I refuse to do that. |
| 1:32.9 | That's not me. |
| 1:33.8 | That's not who I am. |
| 1:35.1 | This is really what you're going to fire me for. |
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