Co-contributors - Lucinda Canty, Christina Nyirati Over the past year, the Nursology.net team members have developed a thread of blogs focused on Action Defending Democracy. The "Overdue Reckoning" discussions provide a way for nurses to come together and engage in emancipatory action! These actions are fundamental to our ethical duty as nurses, and to emancipatory … Continue reading Action Defending Democracy: Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing – March 28, April 4, 18 & 25
Racism in Nursing
Emancipatory Nursing and the Limits of Political Neutrality
Contributor - Kaija Freborg, DNP, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC Helpless. This is how a Minneapolis nurse described feeling in response to the militarized occupation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota, an operation that is being used to disappear immigrants, racialized people, and others who stand in the way. With despair, the nurse recounted having … Continue reading Emancipatory Nursing and the Limits of Political Neutrality
The Importance of Transcultural Nursing in Pediatric Care: Applying Madeleine Leininger’s Sunrise Model
Cátia Alexandra Aguilar MartinsMasters in Nursing Student Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon) Madeleine Leininger was the first nurse with a PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology who addressed how to deal with patients from different cultural backgrounds and cultures. She created the concept of culture shock in 1950, after observing that recurring behavior patterns in … Continue reading The Importance of Transcultural Nursing in Pediatric Care: Applying Madeleine Leininger’s Sunrise Model
The Importance of Transcultural Care in Migrant Children: Contributions of Leininger’s View
Guest Contributor: Carolina Ferreira MarcelinoMaster's student in Child and Pediatric Health NursingCatholic University of Portugal (Lisbon) The migratory phenomenon has reached historic levels in recent months. It is expected to continue to increase, either to search for better socioeconomic conditions or to run away from violence, conflicts, and natural disasters. According to the United Nations … Continue reading The Importance of Transcultural Care in Migrant Children: Contributions of Leininger’s View
Decoloniality, Pluriversality, and the Pluriverse of Nursologies
Contributor: Jerome Visperas Cleofas In my recent paper, “Building a Pluriverse of Nursologies: A Paradigm for Decolonial Theory and Knowledge Development in Nursing,” published in Nursing Philosophy (Cleofas, 2024), I explored how nursing has long been shaped by coloniality and epistemic violence. I also introduced a "decolonial-pluriversal" paradigm aimed at liberating nursing from these colonial … Continue reading Decoloniality, Pluriversality, and the Pluriverse of Nursologies
5 Ways to Support Diverse Clinical Groups
Guest Contributor: Danielle Brochu Growing up in a community where there were two students of color in a high school of about 500 students total, moving away to university was an eye-opening experience for me, especially in regard to diversity. Even in my undergraduate years, the nursing student body was composed of about 90% young … Continue reading 5 Ways to Support Diverse Clinical Groups
What Does Intersectionality Have to Do with Nursing?
In nursing, we have a strong and steady commitment, in theory and in practice, to the idea of "the whole" This idea is expressed in the term that is sometimes spelled with the letter "w" (wholism), and sometimes starting with the letter "h" (holism). The difference between the spellings is subtle, but noticing this difference, … Continue reading What Does Intersectionality Have to Do with Nursing?
Nursing Activism, Compassion and Freedom
There are many reasons, in this year of 2024, for people worldwide to be reflecting on the meaning of freedom. Ongoing wars between nation groups bring into sharp focus the reality of power imbalances that encroach on the freedoms of those with less power. Struggles for basic human rights rage internally in nations around the … Continue reading Nursing Activism, Compassion and Freedom
“Everybody’s Work: Healing What Hurts Us All” – A Film Addressing Racism in Nursing
On this website, we focus on what we, as nurses, know, and how we come to establish what is known as knowledge. The mystery of it all is the fact that even though we all have common experiences of the world, and we frequently proclaim that we share a common core of values, purpose and … Continue reading “Everybody’s Work: Healing What Hurts Us All” – A Film Addressing Racism in Nursing
Race and Microaggression in Nursing Knowledge Development*
Notable works Hall, J. M., & Fields, B. (2012). Race and microaggression in nursing knowledge development. ANS. Advances in Nursing Science, 35(1), 25–38. https://doi.org/10.1097/ANS.0b013e3182433b70 Exactly ten years ago, in the January-March 2012 issue of Advances in Nursing Science, an article appeared titled “Race and microaggression in nursing knowledge development” authored by Joanne Hall and Becky … Continue reading Race and Microaggression in Nursing Knowledge Development*
Decolonizing Nursing: What? Why? How?
On September 23, 2021, Nursology.net and the Center for Nursing Philosophy sponsored a powerful panel presentation focused on the topic "Decolonizing Nursing." Seven nurse scholars of color shared their perspectives and their current work to bring the perspectives of people of color to the center, to empower anti-racist thought and action, and to activate real … Continue reading Decolonizing Nursing: What? Why? How?
In Search of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Communities
First they came for the communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a socialistThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionistThen they came … Continue reading In Search of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Communities
Our Voices: Addressing Racism in Nursing
September 27, 2021. 1-4:30pm Eastern - Virtual Zoom Meeting Register Here Join us to learn more about our voices reckoning with racism in nursing. Share your voice in a dialogue, discussion, and future direction inspired by first person interviews and shown through the compelling stories of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other nurses of color. Featuring … Continue reading Our Voices: Addressing Racism in Nursing
Does Informed Consent Exist for Black Patients?
Contributor: Harriet Omondi MSN, APRN, FNP Systemic racism and racial inequality are two concepts that are deeply ingrained in American history. These two issues come up in every single presidential election where candidates compete for the minority vote by promising reparations for black people and an end to systemic racism. Research has repeatedly revealed that … Continue reading Does Informed Consent Exist for Black Patients?
Theorizing as Emancipatory Action; Emancipatory Action as Theorizing
Over the past year those of us managing the Nursology.net website have experienced two unintended consequences - growing awareness of the importance of fundamental nursing/ public health knowledge and action, and the imperative to examine the structural and interpersonal dynamics of racism. As the web manager of this Nursology.net site as well as the NurseManifest.com … Continue reading Theorizing as Emancipatory Action; Emancipatory Action as Theorizing
Launch of BILNOC Leaders Database
We are delighted to launch a database that provides information about Black, Indigenous, Latina/x and other Nurses of Color (BILNOCs) who are (or have been) leaders and scholars who have contributed to the development of the discipline. This will be a significant resource for scholars and students who seek to recognize and honor BILNOC leaders. … Continue reading Launch of BILNOC Leaders Database
Allies and Advocates – Transforming Cultural Competence
Contributors: Jennifer Weitzel, Jeneile Luebke, Linda Wesp, Maria Del Carmen Graf, Ashley Ruiz, Anne Dressel, & Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu The murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor has prompted a wake-up call to reflect on the pervasive issue of structural racism. As a nation created through histories of colonization and slavery, these murders—among countless others—have acted as … Continue reading Allies and Advocates – Transforming Cultural Competence
The Intersections of Nursing Scholarship and Nursing Activism
In the early 1980s when Maeona Kramer and I first began to put together ideas for a text on theory development in nursing, we were committed to addressing nursing knowledge development beyond the typical boundaries of empirical research and theory development. We had both completed, in 1971, doctoral degrees in Educational Psychology (Maeona at Wayne … Continue reading The Intersections of Nursing Scholarship and Nursing Activism
How Evidenced Based Practice Supports Inequality
Guest contributor: Mike Taylor, Member, Nursology Theory Collective About six years ago, the Maryland Department of Health sponsored a conference for all state stakeholders with an interest in chronic disease, including nursing and medical groups, hospitals, EMS and diabetes product companies. The latest evidenced based practice models were being presented but I was only half … Continue reading How Evidenced Based Practice Supports Inequality
Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing
Our Nursology.net community is committed to addressing the burning issue of racism, how this systemic condition has influenced the development of nursing knowledge, and how this situation can be changed (see our statement on racism in the sidebar for more information). The NurseManifest project has just announced a series of web discussions “Overdue Reckoning on … Continue reading Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing