"We have to make sure in our nursing programs—in our health professions—we are educating our future providers about microaggressions and how to address microaggressions that they may not even know they have." — Mykale Elbe, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, director, MSN Nurse Practitioner Program, Maryville University Disproportionately high mortality rates for black women aren’t caused by genetics, says an expert in healthcare disparities that affect maternal care; it appears to be systemic racism. For this week's lead story, I talked with Mykale Elbe, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, director of the MSN Nurse Practitioner Program, Maryville University, about these troubling numbers and what nurses and nurse leaders can do to help lower them. | 