Implicit Bias

This learning module offers 2.0 hours of continuing education content on implicit bias. Content addresses definitions, historical background, impact in several contexts including healthcare, and strategies to mitigate implicit bias through awareness, acknowledgement, and active resistance.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for an audience of physicians, physician associates, pharmacist and pharmacy technicians, nurses, nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the educational activity, participants should be able to:

  • Recognize and acknowledge implicit bias using at least three examples.
  • List at least three strategies that can be used to actively resist implicit bias.
  • Explain how implicit bias can affect the interpretation of assessment data, behavior, and response to treatment in a healthcare setting.

Commercial Support
There is no commercial support for this activity.

Course summary

Course opens: 
10/06/2026
Course expires: 
10/06/2026
Cost:
$19.95
Rating: 
0

Author: Mary Kathleen Ebener PhD, RN

Planners and Reviewers
Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN (President, AKH Inc.)
Donna Purcell, PsyD (planner/reviewer)
Bernadette Marie Makar, MSN, APRN, BC, NP-C (Reviewer)
Dorothy Duffy, PharmD (Reviewer)
AKH Inc Staff and Planners

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

Disclosures
None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

It is the policy of AKH Inc. to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. The author must disclose to the participants any significant relationships with ineligible companies whose products or devices may be mentioned in the activity or with the commercial supporter of this continuing education activity. Identified conflicts of interest are mitigated by AKH prior to accreditation of the activity. AKH planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use and Investigational Product 
This educational activity may include discussion of uses of agents that are investigational and/or unapproved by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer 
This course is designed solely to provide the healthcare professional with information to assist in his/her practice and professional development and is not to be considered a diagnostic tool to replace professional advice or treatment. The course serves as a general guide to the healthcare professional, and therefore, cannot be considered as giving legal, nursing, medical, or other professional advice in specific cases. AKH Inc. specifically disclaim responsibility for any adverse consequences resulting directly or indirectly from information in the course, for undetected error, or through participants misunderstanding of the content. If you would like to opt out from future communications from AKH please send an email to [email protected] with your information with "Opt Out" in the subject line.

In support of improving patient care, AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 2.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Price

Cost:
$19.95
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Criteria for Success
To obtain credit, you must participate in the entire activity.  Partial credit is not awarded.  Complete the post test and evaluation.  You must receive a 70% or more on the post test to pass.  The Certificate of Completion is immediately available for download after submitting your evaluation.  It will remain in your profile transcript for future retrieval if needed.  It can be found under My Account > My Activities > Completed Activities.

If you have any questions, contact [email protected].

Criteria for Success
To obtain credit, you must complete the activity evaluation and claim credit based on your attendance.  The Certificate of Completion is immediately available for download after submitting your evaluation.  It will remain in your profile transcript for future retrieval if needed.  It can be found under My Account > My Activities > Completed Activities.

If you have any questions, contact [email protected].