How not to deal with a patient's racist dad.

PositionNo Comment - Tonya Battle - Brief article

Tonya Battle, an African American nurse who has worked at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan, for twenty-five years, was taken off a case last fall for an unusual reason. She was tending to a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit when the baby's father, who had a swastika on his arm, insisted on a white nurse. A note on the patient's clipboard...

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