Resistance for Disrupting Inequities and Fostering Social Justice in Nursing: A Discussion

IF 3.4 3区医学 Q1 NURSING Journal of Advanced Nursing Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI:10.1111/jan.16578

Ahtisham Younas, Tarja Kvist

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Abstract

Aims

The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual overview of resistance and argue for the need to embrace resistance as a part of nurses' professional repertoire for disrupting inequities and fostering social justice in both nursing education and practice.

Design

Discursive article.

Data Sources

Published peer reviewed literature on ‘resistance’ and ‘professional resistance’ in nursing, medicine, social work and other allied health care professions.

Results

Enhancing critical consciousness and engaging in intersectional collaboration are promising strategies to embrace resistance for collective action towards disrupting inequities and injustices in nursing education and practice.

Conclusion

Embracing and legitimising resistance in everyday individual and social interactions in educational and practice settings is instrumental to fostering social justice in nursing. Without resistance, nurses may risk jeopardising enactment of moral and ethical responsibilities and suppressing their professional values of caring and compassion.

Implications for the Profession and/or Patient Care

Nurses can embrace resistance in practice to counteract social injustice and promote diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and antiracism in clinical and educational settings.

Impact

Research demonstrated that perceived and real inequities and injustices are common in nursing in the form of individual and structural racism, sex and gender discrimination, power imbalances and incivility. Nurses' engagement in resistance and increased capacity to resist injustices and incivilities can play an instrumental role in disrupting professional inequities in clinical practice and education.

Patient and Public Contribution

There was no patient or public involvement in the design or writing of this discursive article.

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Journal of Advanced Nursing 医学-护理

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6.40

自引率

7.90%

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369

审稿时长

3 months

期刊介绍： The Journal of Advanced Nursing (JAN) contributes to the advancement of evidence-based nursing, midwifery and healthcare by disseminating high quality research and scholarship of contemporary relevance and with potential to advance knowledge for practice, education, management or policy. All JAN papers are required to have a sound scientific, evidential, theoretical or philosophical base and to be critical, questioning and scholarly in approach. As an international journal, JAN promotes diversity of research and scholarship in terms of culture, paradigm and healthcare context. For JAN’s worldwide readership, authors are expected to make clear the wider international relevance of their work and to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural considerations and differences.