Effective June 1, 2022, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs requires implicit bias training for health care professionals. This requirement applies to new applicants and those renewing existing licenses or registrations. Applicants for new licensure must have completed at least 2 hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding the license issuance or registration.

This continuing education opportunity provides three Continuing Education hours that consist of asynchronous work and a two-hour live, interactive, virtual session. Through this workshop, learners will be introduced to topics including, but not limited to

• Demographic and cognitive diversity

• The value and purpose of diversity, equity, and inclusion in healthcare professions

• Unconscious bias and implicit association

• Microaggressions

Learners will engage with these topics through various introspective and applicative activities led by Dr. Leland Harper, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Siena Heights University, and Founder of Leland Harper Consulting. Learners will also be provided with a list of additional resources, allowing them to continue learning on these topics at their leisure. 

All learners who successfully complete the workshop and post-session assessment and evaluation form will be issued a certificate of completion and a verifiable virtual badge to share across various social media platforms. 

“This CE Activity, OLN-S-3130-2023 offered by Siena Heights University has been approved for 3.0 contact hours by the Ohio Board of Nursing through the approver unit at the Ohio League for Nursing (OBN-006-92) and the program is approved to be offered through April 17, 2025.”

For more information on the Ohio League for Nursing, please visit their webpage at www.Ohioleaguefornursing.org.