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Just ONE question this week for your reflective journals, but it will require you to conduct a brief experiment

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Just ONE question this week for your reflective journals, but it will require you to conduct a brief experiment.

This week, you were assigned a TED Talk to watch. The speaker posed the question, "Are you biased?" - and she suggested that you try a technique to "flip it to test it" when it comes to identifying bias. The video included several examples that can help show how we might have unconscious biases that we are not even aware of as influences in how we go about our daily interactions.

Consider your future nursing career, and the variety of patients you will serve. An example of using the "flip it to test it" technique in health care might be something like this: you are caring for a person who is one religion, race, or gender; and, you pause to ask yourself if you would be providing care any differently, if the patient was from a different religion, race, or gender.

This takes practice. So, for this journal entry, you are asked to do the following:

• Find an opportunity to try the "flip it to test it" technique. This could be during an interaction with a fellow classmate, a stranger, or even when looking at a product slogan or ad (similar to some of the examples given in the TED Talk).
• Reflect on your experience of "flipping it" and what you learned from trying this technique to uncover unconscious biases within yourself. https://youtu.be/Bq_xYSOZrgU