“Taking our blindfolds off”: acknowledging the vision of first nations peoples for nursing and midwifery
This editorial responds to a recent reminder from an Elder to acknowledge and respect First Nations ways of knowing, doing, and being as health professionals and researchers. This reminder asked us to critically reflect on our professional stance and practices as nurses, midwives and researchers in...
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ftjamescook:oai:researchonline.jcu.edu.au:66999 2024-02-11T10:03:50+01:00 “Taking our blindfolds off”: acknowledging the vision of first nations peoples for nursing and midwifery Sherwood, Juanita West, Roianne Geia, Lynore Drummond, Ali Power, Tamara Stuart, Lynne Deravin, Linda 2021 application/pdf https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/66999/1/66999.pdf unknown Australian Nursing Federation https://doi.org/10.37464/2020.381.413 https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/66999/ https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/66999/1/66999.pdf Sherwood, Juanita, West, Roianne, Geia, Lynore, Drummond, Ali, Power, Tamara, Stuart, Lynne, and Deravin, Linda (2021) “Taking our blindfolds off”: acknowledging the vision of first nations peoples for nursing and midwifery. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 38 (1). pp. 2-5. restricted Article PeerReviewed 2021 ftjamescook https://doi.org/10.37464/2020.381.413 2024-01-22T23:47:52Z This editorial responds to a recent reminder from an Elder to acknowledge and respect First Nations ways of knowing, doing, and being as health professionals and researchers. This reminder asked us to critically reflect on our professional stance and practices as nurses, midwives and researchers in the light of the fire that still burns at the Aboriginal tent Embassy and recent dialogues for Australia Day. In light of the international Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, we discuss the importance of our shared roles and responsibilities to continue to challenge racism and oppressive practices in Australian health care. Decolonising nursing and midwifery practice, policy, research, and education approaches offer a clear transformational reform process to address oppressive practices and racism including attitudes, ignorance and bias, generalisations, assumptions, uninformed opinions and commit to developing and embedding cultural safety in the nursing and midwifery profession. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations James Cook University, Australia: ResearchOnline@JCU Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing 38 1 |
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This editorial responds to a recent reminder from an Elder to acknowledge and respect First Nations ways of knowing, doing, and being as health professionals and researchers. This reminder asked us to critically reflect on our professional stance and practices as nurses, midwives and researchers in the light of the fire that still burns at the Aboriginal tent Embassy and recent dialogues for Australia Day. In light of the international Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, we discuss the importance of our shared roles and responsibilities to continue to challenge racism and oppressive practices in Australian health care. Decolonising nursing and midwifery practice, policy, research, and education approaches offer a clear transformational reform process to address oppressive practices and racism including attitudes, ignorance and bias, generalisations, assumptions, uninformed opinions and commit to developing and embedding cultural safety in the nursing and midwifery profession. |
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