Building Nurse Upstanders for Health Equity

Background: Health inequities are prevalent in the Unit-ed States and globally; however, racism as a root cause for health inequities is not explicitly addressed in most nurs-ing or health science curricula. Method: Nursing students enrolled in an undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nurs-ing research course were immersed in a trip to a Holocaust and Human Rights Museum as a nontraditional experi-ential approach to building upstanders for health equity. Results: Students used their experiences to inspire research to advocate for health equity for vulnerable populations and disseminated their research at local, national, and in-ternational conferences. Conclusion: Nurse educators are responsible for ensuring nursing curricula are current and inclusive to address the health needs of patients and com-munities and to improve patient and population health out-comes. Embedding an immersive experience and related assignments is one strategy toward dismantling structural racism in health care. [J Nurs Educ. 2022;61(7):417-420.]