For New Nurses & Nursing Students

Implicit Bias Education for New Nurses & Nursing Students

⏰ 60 minutes (plus optional activities)

🏆 1.0 ANCC Continuing Education credit available

📜 Certificate of Completion

⚖️ Meets the requirements of CA AB 241 for New Nurses and Nursing Students

Write your awesome label here.
What Your Colleagues Say:

"This was a great presentation and represented this important topic well."

“Great training on a very important topic not only in health care, but in our everyday lives.”

"Not what I expected - I loved it!"

“Great learning tools to help us serve ALL patients. Thank you for the reminders and new ideas.”

As nurses, we strive to provide all our patients the highest quality of care.

Completing this course will bring nursing students and new nurses into compliance with the California Law AB 1407 “Implicit Bias Education for New Nurses & Nursing Students".

Upon completion of the course material and after passing the post-course CE exam, learners will earn 1.0 contact hour of CE under the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Write your awesome label here.
Part One,
Protecting Yourself & Your Patients from Implicit Bias

Provides learners with foundational knowledge and essential insights into the nature of unintended, implicit biases.

Learners will be able to:

  • Describe the source and nature of implicit biases
  • Provide examples of how implicit bias can affect care
  • Describe 5 evidence-based bias-prevention strategies


(Part One corresponds to Section 2786 e1a, e1b, e1c, e1d of CA law AB 1407)
Part Two, 
Understanding & Addressing Racial & Ethnic Bias During a Healthcare Crisis

Builds on and reinforces the knowledge and insights gained from Part One and adds key structural competency topics.

Learners will be able to: 

  • Describe why and how stress exacerbates unintended biases
  • Explain the benefits of understanding social structure for providing high-quality care to all patients
  • Provide examples of how they will apply evidence-based bias prevention to improve patient care


(Part Two corresponds to Section 2786 e1a, e1b, e1c, e1d, e1f, e1g, e1h, e1j, e1l of CA law AB 1407)
Part Three, 
Dignity in Childbirth & Pregnancy: Preventing Racial Bias in Perinatal Care Foundations  

Further builds on and reinforces the knowledge and insights gained from preceding eLearning experiences and adds additional insights into the roots of racial bias in the US.

Learners will be able to: 

  • Describe research findings on inequities in perinatal care
  • Provide specific examples of how nurses implicit racial biases can undermine quality of care
  • Provide examples of strategies they will use to improve care for Black patients


(Part Three corresponds to Section 2786 e1a, e1b, e1c, e1d, e1f, e1g, e1h, e1j, e1l of CA law AB 1407)

Why do Optum Health, Mayo Clinic, Boston Scientific, Hospital Association of New York, Health Partners, Cleveland Clinic, the Permanente Medical Group, Sutter Health, Confluence Health, The Indiana Hospital Association, the Center for Antiracism and Health Equity, and the California Health Care Association, among others, choose our courses?

In their words:

#unmatched expertise | #the best we have seen | #truly evidence-based  | #top marks from our doctors | #head & shoulders above the rest