title: Empower yourself.
abstract: Community matron, author and coach Shirley Baah-Mensah says the racism she encountered as a nursing student in the 1980s still exists in the NHS, although in more subtle forms. She advises other BME nurses to take control, avoid being ground down and forge the career they deserve.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trueland
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011209:Power, Psychological; D006113:United Kingdom