This book examines the structural forces shaping inequities within healthcare and highlights the essential role nurses play in addressing them. While nursing is often associated with compassion and service, the book brings forward the complex realities of racism, ableism, sexism, classism, and the exclusion of neurodiverse individuals that remain embedded in everyday practice. It offers a clear and grounded analysis of these issues, drawing on current research to illuminate how they manifest in clinical settings and influence patient outcomes, professional interactions, and institutional policies. Rather than presenting social justice as an abstract ideal, the book emphasizes its practical relevance for contemporary nursing. It explores how biases—both individual and systemic—affect the delivery of care, and it illustrates the ways inequities contribute to disparities in mental health, chronic illness, and access to essential services. Through reflective guidance and applied examples, readers are encouraged to question assumptions, examine practice environments, and consider how meaningful advocacy can be integrated into routine clinical work. This book supports nurses in strengthening their capacity to respond to inequity with clarity and purpose. It provides a framework for understanding how social justice and nursing intersect, and it underscores the profession’s influence in shaping more inclusive and responsive healthcare systems. By bringing to light the challenges as well as the possibilities for change, this book offers readers a thoughtful and substantive resource for promoting equity in practice, education, and policy.