Health equity (HE) is a central concern across multiple disciplines and sectors, including nursing. However, the proliferation of the term has not resulted in corresponding policymaking that leads to a clear reduction of health inequities. The goal of this paper is to use institutional ethnographic methods to map the social organization of HE policy discourses in Canada, a process that serves to reproduce existing relations of power that stymie substantive change in policy aimed at reducing health inequity. In nursing, institutional ethnography (IE) is described as a method of inquiry for taking sides in order to expose socially organized practices of power. Starting from the standpoints of HE policy advocates we explain the methods of IE, focusing on a stepwise description of theoretical and practical applications in the area of policymaking. Results are discussed in the context of three thematic areas: 1) bounding HE talk within biomedical imperialism, 2) situating racialization and marginalization as a subaltern space in HE discourses, and 3) activating HE texts as ruling relations. We conclude with key points about our insights into the methodological and theoretical potential of critical policy research using IE to analyze the social organization of power in HE policy narratives. This paper contributes to critical nursing discourse in the area of HE, demonstrating how IE can be applied to disrupt socially organized neoliberal and colonialist narratives that recycle and redeploy oppressive policymaking practices within and beyond nursing.
{"title":"Health Inequity and Institutional Ethnography: Mapping the Problem of Policy Change","authors":"Elizabeth A McGibbon, K. Fierlbeck, T. Ajadi","doi":"10.25071/2291-5796.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.117","url":null,"abstract":"Health equity (HE) is a central concern across multiple disciplines and sectors, including nursing. However, the proliferation of the term has not resulted in corresponding policymaking that leads to a clear reduction of health inequities. The goal of this paper is to use institutional ethnographic methods to map the social organization of HE policy discourses in Canada, a process that serves to reproduce existing relations of power that stymie substantive change in policy aimed at reducing health inequity. In nursing, institutional ethnography (IE) is described as a method of inquiry for taking sides in order to expose socially organized practices of power. Starting from the standpoints of HE policy advocates we explain the methods of IE, focusing on a stepwise description of theoretical and practical applications in the area of policymaking. Results are discussed in the context of three thematic areas: 1) bounding HE talk within biomedical imperialism, 2) situating racialization and marginalization as a subaltern space in HE discourses, and 3) activating HE texts as ruling relations. We conclude with key points about our insights into the methodological and theoretical potential of critical policy research using IE to analyze the social organization of power in HE policy narratives. This paper contributes to critical nursing discourse in the area of HE, demonstrating how IE can be applied to disrupt socially organized neoliberal and colonialist narratives that recycle and redeploy oppressive policymaking practices within and beyond nursing.","PeriodicalId":354700,"journal":{"name":"Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123945650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The devastating global health impacts of climate change are becoming more apparent and more frequent. Health care systems are increasingly burdened by the response to these impacts. Paradoxically, as they respond to the negative health effects of climate change, these same resource intense health care systems are contributing to further climate change. Organizations and academics have issued a call to action for health care workers to mitigate climate change and promote environmental sustainability. Nurses are an integral part of health care systems but have been delayed in answering this call. In this paper we argue that nurses are particularly well suited to mitigating climate change in health care systems because their existing role is central to patient care, and as a result they interface with other health care providers and have developed proficiency in articulation work.
{"title":"Nurses as Boundary Actors in Sustainable Health Care: A Discussion Paper","authors":"Joanna Law, M. Kalogirou, S. Dahlke","doi":"10.25071/2291-5796.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.105","url":null,"abstract":"The devastating global health impacts of climate change are becoming more apparent and more frequent. Health care systems are increasingly burdened by the response to these impacts. Paradoxically, as they respond to the negative health effects of climate change, these same resource intense health care systems are contributing to further climate change. Organizations and academics have issued a call to action for health care workers to mitigate climate change and promote environmental sustainability. Nurses are an integral part of health care systems but have been delayed in answering this call. In this paper we argue that nurses are particularly well suited to mitigating climate change in health care systems because their existing role is central to patient care, and as a result they interface with other health care providers and have developed proficiency in articulation work.","PeriodicalId":354700,"journal":{"name":"Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117084707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurses in Canada and worldwide have been experiencing a healthcare system under the strain of the Covid-19 pandemic. With the effects of climate change, what is to come will likely be even more straining, particularly if healthcare providers and administrators are not prepared. This special issue invited nurses to dive into the complexities of climate change and the ecological determinants of health and consider essential concepts related to nursing. The nursing profession is experiencing a change in thinking toward an expanded environmental context, as nurses witness the ever-increasing destructive land use, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions that ignore gross inequities in environmental burdens that bring us closer to catastrophic consequences (Kurth, 2017). The papers in this special issue provide some direction for nurses to help prepare themselves and the system for what lies ahead. We want to add some additional considerations relating to nursing (on) a sick planet in a time of planetary decline.
{"title":"Nursing (on) a Sick Planet: Critical Consciousness and Action in a Time of Planetary Decline","authors":"Wanda Martin, J. Kaminski","doi":"10.25071/2291-5796.119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.119","url":null,"abstract":"Nurses in Canada and worldwide have been experiencing a healthcare system under the strain of the Covid-19 pandemic. With the effects of climate change, what is to come will likely be even more straining, particularly if healthcare providers and administrators are not prepared. This special issue invited nurses to dive into the complexities of climate change and the ecological determinants of health and consider essential concepts related to nursing. The nursing profession is experiencing a change in thinking toward an expanded environmental context, as nurses witness the ever-increasing destructive land use, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions that ignore gross inequities in environmental burdens that bring us closer to catastrophic consequences (Kurth, 2017). The papers in this special issue provide some direction for nurses to help prepare themselves and the system for what lies ahead. We want to add some additional considerations relating to nursing (on) a sick planet in a time of planetary decline.","PeriodicalId":354700,"journal":{"name":"Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131338922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Nicholas, Clara M. Gona, Linda M. Evans, Eleonor Pusey Reid
The US National Academy of Medicine released its consensus study for the next decade entitled The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path To Achieve Health Equity (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2021). This paper examines the report, its implications for nursing globally, its focus on systemic, structural, and institutional racism, and the intersection with climate change and deleterious health consequences. The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has led in addressing the critical role of the nursing profession in achieving optimal population health outcomes in the US. Yet, relevance exists for nursing in other global areas. The most recent US report focuses on social determinants of health (SDoH) and explicitly addresses climate change as a looming public health threat. An analysis of the key foci of nursing’s role in climate change amidst the critical role of health equity globally is explicated.
{"title":"Intersection of Climate Change and Health: An Explication of the Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity","authors":"P. Nicholas, Clara M. Gona, Linda M. Evans, Eleonor Pusey Reid","doi":"10.25071/2291-5796.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.114","url":null,"abstract":"The US National Academy of Medicine released its consensus study for the next decade entitled The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path To Achieve Health Equity (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2021). This paper examines the report, its implications for nursing globally, its focus on systemic, structural, and institutional racism, and the intersection with climate change and deleterious health consequences. The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has led in addressing the critical role of the nursing profession in achieving optimal population health outcomes in the US. Yet, relevance exists for nursing in other global areas. The most recent US report focuses on social determinants of health (SDoH) and explicitly addresses climate change as a looming public health threat. An analysis of the key foci of nursing’s role in climate change amidst the critical role of health equity globally is explicated.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":354700,"journal":{"name":"Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129227300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When people ask me, “What does climate change have to do with nursing?”, my response is: “Everything!” Our changing climate influences the current health conditions of the patients and populations we care for. This includes exacerbations of illnesses, exposures to vector-borne diseases, and equitable access to food, clean air, medical equipment, and a myriad of social supports that promote and maintain health. These multiple health impacts influence nursing practice from disaster preparation and management, the frequency and severity of illnesses of hospitalized patients, our discharge planning, and preventive and health protective actions. In fact, climate change has been identified as the greatest global public health threat (Lancet Countdown, n.d.). To promote, maintain, and restore health, nurses must be aware of basic climate science, including the causes of climate change and its health impacts. In addition, nurses must advocate at the local, province or state, national, and global levels to address climate change.
{"title":"COP26: This time, nurses are taking a lead.","authors":"R. McDermott-Levy","doi":"10.25071/2291-5796.118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.118","url":null,"abstract":"When people ask me, “What does climate change have to do with nursing?”, my response is: “Everything!” Our changing climate influences the current health conditions of the patients and populations we care for. This includes exacerbations of illnesses, exposures to vector-borne diseases, and equitable access to food, clean air, medical equipment, and a myriad of social supports that promote and maintain health. These multiple health impacts influence nursing practice from disaster preparation and management, the frequency and severity of illnesses of hospitalized patients, our discharge planning, and preventive and health protective actions. In fact, climate change has been identified as the greatest global public health threat (Lancet Countdown, n.d.). To promote, maintain, and restore health, nurses must be aware of basic climate science, including the causes of climate change and its health impacts. In addition, nurses must advocate at the local, province or state, national, and global levels to address climate change.","PeriodicalId":354700,"journal":{"name":"Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117083324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deceitful Stories","authors":"Vanessa Van Bewer","doi":"10.25071/2291-5796.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.100","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>n/a</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":354700,"journal":{"name":"Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127892732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Kennedy, R. Lisa Bourque Bearskin, Kaija Freborg
Amidst many opportunities to create positive change and examine systemic anti-racist decolonial practices (Moorley et al., 2020), we are advocating for concrete action at the root of Nursing education programs by way of a structural anti-racism audit. Based on decolonial and antiracist theory (Garneau et al, 2018; Gaudry & Lorenz, 2018; Kendi, 2019; McGibbon & Etowa, 2009), we propose to engage in systems-level action (McGowan et al, 2020; Mulgan, 2006; van Wijk t al., 2018) and examine institutional structures through an anti-racist framework (Sutton, 2002) based on audit processes for equity, diversity, and inclusion (Chun & Evans, 2019; Olson, 2020; Skrla et al., 2004; Skrla et al., 2009; Zion, et al., 2020). Structures within and influencing curriculum, pedagogy, evaluation will be examined to advance systems-level anti-racist practices and policies (Moorley et al., 2020) with Nursing students, faculty, staff, leadership as a foundation for equitable Nursing education and care (National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health, 2014). This anti-racist approach to Nursing education reform promises to address the pernicious harms of discrimination in the healthcare system, as noted in a recent report on Indigenous-specific racism (Turpel-Lafonde, 2020). We aim to conduct a strengths-based structural anti-racism audit that does not lose sight of disparities (Fogarty et al., 2018). We are currently conducting a literature review and audit framework development and will pilot the structural anti-racism audit in fall 2021. Rather than requesting endorsement of our project, and with respect for diverse approaches, we asked Nursing colleagues to sign this letter to demonstrate shared commitment to critically examine racist challenges and anti-racist opportunities in their Nursing program at a structural level (see this survey: https://forms.gle/tZPN2z1kUoARNPp1A
在许多创造积极变革和检查系统性反种族主义非殖民化实践的机会中(Moorley等人，2020年)，我们倡导通过结构性反种族主义审计在护理教育计划的根源上采取具体行动。基于非殖民化和反种族主义理论(Garneau et al, 2018;Gaudry & Lorenz, 2018;Kendi, 2019;McGibbon & Etowa, 2009)，我们建议采取系统级行动(McGowan等人，2020;摩根,2006;van Wijk等人，2018)，并基于公平、多样性和包容性的审计流程，通过反种族主义框架(Sutton, 2002)检查制度结构(Chun & Evans, 2019;奥尔森,2020;Skrla et al.， 2004;Skrla et al.， 2009;Zion, et al.， 2020)。将审查课程、教学法、评估内部和影响课程、教学法、评估的结构，以推进系统级反种族主义做法和政策(Moorley等人，2020年)，与护理学生、教职员工、领导一起，作为公平护理教育和护理的基础(健康决定因素国家合作中心，2014年)。正如最近一份关于土著种族主义的报告所指出的那样，这种针对护理教育改革的反种族主义方法有望解决医疗保健系统中歧视的有害危害(Turpel-Lafonde, 2020)。我们的目标是开展以优势为基础的结构性反种族主义审计，同时不忽视差异(Fogarty et al.， 2018)。我们目前正在进行文献审查和审计框架开发，并将在2021年秋季试点结构性反种族主义审计。在尊重不同方法的情况下，我们没有要求对我们的项目进行认可，而是要求护理部门的同事签署这封信，以表明我们共同致力于在结构层面上批判性地审视护理项目中的种族主义挑战和反种族主义机会(参见本调查:https://forms.gle/tZPN2z1kUoARNPp1A)
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{"title":"Why Reconciliation should be an urgent priority for the Nursing profession","authors":"Shazday Usmani","doi":"10.25071/2291-5796.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.106","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>n/a</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":354700,"journal":{"name":"Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134235870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moneca Sinclaire, A. Schultz, J. Linton, Elizabeth A McGibbon
Indigenous research on Turtle Island has existed for millennia, where knowledge(s) to work with the land and its inhabitants are available for next generations. These knowledge systems exist today but are rarely viewed as valid biomedical ‘facts’ and so are silenced. When Indigenous knowledge is solicited within health research, the knowledge system is predominantly an ‘add-on’ or is assimilated into Western understandings. We discuss disrupting this colonial state for nurse researchers. Two concepts rooted in Indigenous teachings and knowledges, Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) and Ethical Space, shed light on ways to disrupt health researchers’ attraction to a singular worldview which continue to privilege Western perspectives. Knowledge rooted in diverse knowledge systems is required to challenge colonial relations in health research and practice. A synergy between Etuaptmumk and Ethical Space can support working with both Indigenous and biomedical knowledge systems in health research and enhance reconciliation.
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The recent ‘discoveries’ of the remains of the 215 murdered children at the Kamloops residential school, and the 751 murdered children at the Marieval residential school in Saskatchewan, has, for many, brought to the forefront the systematic and willful negation of Canada’s genocidal settler colonial history that continues today. We write as two white settler colonialists with European descent (Thomas and Wendy) and one non-status Indigenous person from the Oneida Nation (Catherine) in what is today called Canada. What we find most striking is the outrage and outpouring of white tears in the aftermath of these ‘discoveries’; this outrage is both perplexing and offensive. It is perplexing as these are not ‘discoveries’ at all. Indigenous people have always known about these massacres, about the children who would go out to the field at night and never return; about the bodies that were never returned to their families; about the children who were told their parents never wanted to see them again and were forcibly placed into settlers’ homes; children who were tortured and molested to ‘beat the Indian out of the child’; the countless suicides in bathrooms; and the forced abortions and sterilizations of girls who were raped by priests and clergy, to name only a few of the atrocities (Berrera, 2021; Mosby, 2013). Indigenous people have been screaming and pleading for decades to be heard, to be listened to, and to be believed (Kestler-D’Amour, 2021). Countless oral histories and traditional historical accounts, reports, declarations r(e.g., United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples), commissions (e.g., Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada), court battles, etc. have sought to bring these stories to the forefront and yet, we ask, where was the outrage then?
{"title":"No more settler tears, no more humanitarian consternation: Recognizing our racist history and present NOW!","authors":"Catherine Larocque, Thomas Foth, W. Gifford","doi":"10.25071/2291-5796.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.107","url":null,"abstract":"The recent ‘discoveries’ of the remains of the 215 murdered children at the Kamloops residential school, and the 751 murdered children at the Marieval residential school in Saskatchewan, has, for many, brought to the forefront the systematic and willful negation of Canada’s genocidal settler colonial history that continues today. We write as two white settler colonialists with European descent (Thomas and Wendy) and one non-status Indigenous person from the Oneida Nation (Catherine) in what is today called Canada. What we find most striking is the outrage and outpouring of white tears in the aftermath of these ‘discoveries’; this outrage is both perplexing and offensive. It is perplexing as these are not ‘discoveries’ at all. Indigenous people have always known about these massacres, about the children who would go out to the field at night and never return; about the bodies that were never returned to their families; about the children who were told their parents never wanted to see them again and were forcibly placed into settlers’ homes; children who were tortured and molested to ‘beat the Indian out of the child’; the countless suicides in bathrooms; and the forced abortions and sterilizations of girls who were raped by priests and clergy, to name only a few of the atrocities (Berrera, 2021; Mosby, 2013). Indigenous people have been screaming and pleading for decades to be heard, to be listened to, and to be believed (Kestler-D’Amour, 2021). Countless oral histories and traditional historical accounts, reports, declarations r(e.g., United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples), commissions (e.g., Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada), court battles, etc. have sought to bring these stories to the forefront and yet, we ask, where was the outrage then?","PeriodicalId":354700,"journal":{"name":"Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132337396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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