Valerie Vainieri Huttle Co-Sponsored (Introduced) this Legislation.
Title: Requires Health Care Professionals to Undergo Bias Training
Signed by Governor Phil Murphy
Title: Requires Health Care Professionals to Undergo Bias Training
Title: Requires Health Care Professionals to Undergo Bias Training
Vote to amend and pass a bill that requires health care professionals to undergo implicit and explicit bias training.
Defines “Implicit bias” as a bias in judgment or behavior that results from subtle cognitive processes, including implicit prejudice and implicit stereotypes, that often operate at a level below conscious awareness and without intentional control (Sec. 1).
Requires hospitals to provide an evidence-based implicit training program for all health professionals who provide perinatal treatment and care to pregnant women at the hospital or birthing center (Sec. 1).
Requires the training program to include (Sec.1):
Identifying previous and current unconscious biases and misinformation when providing perinatal treatment and care to pregnant women;
Identifying personal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural barriers to inclusion;
Information on the effects of historical and contemporary exclusion and oppression of minority communities;
Information about cultural identity across racial and ethnic groups;
Information about communicating more effectively across racial, ethnic, religious, and gender identities;
Information about reproductive justice;
Discussion on power dynamics and organizational decision-making and their effects on implicit bias;
Discussion on health inequities and racial and ethnic disparities within the field of perinatal care, and
How implicit bias may contribute to pregnancy-related deaths and maternal and infant health outcomes; and
Corrective measures to decrease implicit bias at the interpersonal and institutional levels.
Title: Requires Health Care Professionals to Undergo Bias Training
Title: Requires Health Care Professionals to Undergo Bias Training
Title: Requires Health Care Professionals to Undergo Bias Training