ANA has kicked off a multi-phase effort of accountability, healing, and reconciliation with the public release of its official racial reckoning statement, which the voting representatives of ANA's Membership Assembly unanimously voted "yes" on last month. With this public release, ANA acknowledges its own past actions that have caused irreparable harm to nurses of color and that have perpetuated systemic racism. It is their hope that this work will begin to strengthen who they are as a professional association and the broader nursing profession through inclusion, diversity, and equity as we all strive for antiracist nursing practices and environments.
