Critical Consciousness in Nursing Education

DOI: https://doi.Org/10.17483/2368-6669.1327 In light of the serious events related to today's care of Indigenous People in the Canadian health care system, the death of Ms. Joyce Echaquan, Atikamekw, being one, many have wondered during the past year why health professionals have been so obliv...

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Published in:Quality advancement in nursing education 2021-01, Vol.7 (2), p.1-5
Main Authors: Pepin, Jacinthe I, Myrick, Florence
Format: Article
Language:eng ; fre
Subjects:
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Consciousness
Critical thinking
Echaquan, Joyce
Medical personnel
Native peoples
Nursing education
Nursing schools
Professionals
Racism
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Summary:DOI: https://doi.Org/10.17483/2368-6669.1327 In light of the serious events related to today's care of Indigenous People in the Canadian health care system, the death of Ms. Joyce Echaquan, Atikamekw, being one, many have wondered during the past year why health professionals have been so oblivious to the various forms of racism and discrimination. [...]it was proposed, by an international commission, that professional education be transformative and interdependent for the purpose of fostering the development of "change agents with the status, authority, and ability to promote enlightened transformation in society", health equity for marginalized being one such needed transformation (Frenk et al., 2010, p. 1946). [...]to improve care for Indigenous Peoples and for other marginalized people, shall nursing education focus on supporting the learners' critical consciousness together with clinical judgement in nursing (Beauchamp et al.; Lavoie et al. in this edition of Quality Advancement in Nursing Education [QANE]), ethics in nursing, and other salient outcomes? (2021, p. 1) "aims to foster health equity and mitigate the intersecting forms of interpersonal and structural racism experienced by Indigenous people in the health care system in Canada." Characteristics of the program point to specific teaching by and about Indigenous People, an approach that aims at transforming thoughts and actions, and a system-level intervention, inasmuch as education alone cannot sustain a major change without organizational and systemic policies (Browne et al., 2021).
ISSN:2368-6669
2368-6669
DOI:10.17483/2368-6669.1327