![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To deliberately undo colonizing practices, we have to act on decolonization practices. (housing, employment, food security etc) Further, colonizing practices continue to invade our health institutions, including nursing. What it means today for any marginalized communities is displacement, loss of culture, loss of language, customs, and the deliberate erasure of marginalized communities' contributions.Ĭonversely, decolonization is acknowledging that these colonized systems have had widespread impact on our society through all aspects of life. “Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people another.” What this meant for indigenous peoples was displacement, and instituting legal and other structures which disadvantage them. But first I’ll share what colonization is.Īccording to Sarah Trembath, professor at the American University in Washington, D.C. I want to take a moment to explain what decolonization means. In it, we discuss the responsibility of nurses to decolonize the profession. I mentioned recently the ANA’s position statement that I co created called The Nurse’s Role and Responsibility in Unveiling and Dismantling Racism in Nursing. But are these efforts helping to decolonize the nursing profession? If you're scratching your head wondering what I’m talking about, let me share more. We have created trainings and workshops so that nurses and nurse faculty have an understanding of what these terms mean so that we may bring social and racial justice into the profession. We have defined more clearly in the past several years what implicit biases are, microaggressions and health equity. In recent years, there has been more development of language around race and healthcare. ![]()
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