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Decolonisation for health: A lifelong process of unlearning for Australian white nurse educators
Nursing inquiry, Vol.31(2), e12616
04/2024
PMID: 38031248
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Abstract
Indigenous nurse scholars across nations colonised by Europeans articulate the need for accomplices (as opposed to mere performative allies) to work alongside them and support their ongoing struggle for health equity and respect and to prioritise and promote culturally safe healthcare. Although cultural safety is now being mandated in nursing codes of practice as a strategy to address racism in healthcare, it is important that white nurse educators have a comprehensive understanding about cultural safety and the pedagogical skills needed to teach it to undergraduate nurses. We open this article with stories of our journeys as two white nurses in becoming accomplices and working alongside Indigenous Peoples, as patients and colleagues. Our lived experience of the inertia of healthcare and education organisations to address systemic and institutional resistance to the practice of cultural safety underpins the intention of this article. We understand that delivering this challenging and complex topic effectively and respectfully is best achieved when Indigenous and white educators work together at the cultural interface. Doing so requires commitment from white nurses and power holders within universities and healthcare institutions. A decolonising approach to nurse education at individual and institutional levels is fundamental to support and grow the work that needs to be done to reduce health inequity and increase cultural safety. White nurse accomplices can play an important role in teaching future nurses the importance of critical reflection and aiming to reduce power imbalances and racism within healthcare environments. Reducing power imbalances in healthcare environments and decolonising nursing practice is the strength of a cultural safety framework.
Details
- Title
- Decolonisation for health: A lifelong process of unlearning for Australian white nurse educators
- Creators
- Elizabeth Rix - University of AdelaideFrances Doran - Southern Cross UniversityBeth Wrigley - Southern Cross UniversityDarlene Rotumah - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Nursing inquiry, Vol.31(2), e12616
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Identifiers
- 991013152813802368
- Copyright
- © 2023 The Authors. Nursing Inquiry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
- Academic Unit
- Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples; Nursing; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article