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Juneteenth Recognition at Healthcare Organizations

By Shepeara Hall posted 07-02-2020 04:37 PM

  
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Hello,

As Co-Chair of the Nursing Diversity Council at my healthcare organization, I am interested in learning how other health organizations are recognizing Juneteenth.

I am soliciting your responses to the questions below:

  1. How did your health organization recognize/celebrate Juneteenth in 2020?
  2. How does your health organization plan to recognize/celebrate Juneteenth in 2021?

Thank you,

Shepeara Hall DNP, RN, NE-BC

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William Devine
08-13-2020 09:07 PM

That’s dicey stuff.  Most people I know don’t know what Juneteenth is.  A thorough cultural assessment can identify what a patient celebrates and how the healthcare org can support this.

For employees, take your days off on days important to you.  I find Christmas a big distraction in the healthcare setting.  If it doesn’t interfere, then it isn’t a problem.  If it promotes health and well-being, super.  I don’t celebrate any holidays myself, including firework day...so it is all an annoyance or distraction to what I do, I support my patient’s mythology.  For my kids, my wife and I decided we didn’t want them left out, Eventually they grow out of it.

I think of how many holidays are to support the Bronze Age traditions of Christians, or the celebration of illusory victories gone by celebrating “freedom” by the Colonially-Complected.  That is the big issue here.  Why are we celebrating any of this?  I didn’t go to a Sundance when practicing in the Great Plains.  If invited I would have considered it, but most holidays of the Colonially-Complected are just so “in your face.”  Not my cup of tea.  Great topic.