An Arts-Based Anti-Discriminatory Approach to Online Nursing Education: Reducing Addiction Stigma and Meeting Social Justice Learning Outcomes

Addiction stigma exists in health care systems among health care providers, including nursing students. It is often tied to knowledge deficits and acts as a barrier to those seeking supportive addiction services. The purpose was to discuss innovative approaches that reduce addiction stigma and meet social justice learning outcomes in online nursing education. A four-stage algorithm was used with 95 articles. Applying an exclusion and screening process yielded 17 articles. Another 10 articles were drawn from my recent graduate work. Online educators can use artistic pedagogical technologies to practice from a critical consciousness lens to design social justice learning outcomes with an antidiscriminatory framework. An intentional and innovative framework to reduce addiction stigma in online nursing students is proposed, developed from artistic pedagogical technologies within a critical consciousness lens. This inclusive pedagogical approach is accessible to diverse twenty-first century learners, reduces addictions stigma, and leads to better-prepared nurses who deliver excellent nursing care for all.