The Decolonization of Nursing Education

Transformative dissonant encounters: Opportunities for cultivating antiracism in White nursing students

“…Therefore, attention should be given to higher‐order contexts that affect how and if instructors can implement the kind of nursing education that encourages transformative dissonant encounters. Including activities like the SRCP mapping project in nursing education might be a risky task depending on departmental and institutional culture and values, as well as nursing accreditation standards (Freeman, 2020; Valderama‐Wallace & Apesoa‐Varano, 2020; Zappas et al, 2021). The promise that the mapping assignment shows in transforming White students' relationship to systemic racism is limited by its embrace from faculty, medical associations, and policy‐makers and as such, attention should be given to multilevel systems factors that determine its adoption (see Valderama‐Wallace & Apesoa‐Varano, 2020 for a comprehensive list of factors).…”

“…White people in the United States are unlikely to have learned about systemic racism, formally or informally. Despite recent calls for antiracist approaches to health‐care education (e.g., Blanchet Garneau et al, 2018; Zappas et al, 2021), multicultural approaches that omit systems critiques still dominate health‐care education in the United States (Bell, 2020; Valderama‐Wallace & Apesoa‐Varano, 2019). The void created by this lack of knowledge can be filled by reliance on cultural inferiority scripts about BIPOC (Bonam et al, 2018; Coleman et al, 2019; Malat et al, 2010).…”

Countering Structural Racism through Alternative Approaches to Baccalaureate Nursing Education

“…and Hispanic-Serving Institutions. These programs also incorporate culturally relevant and anti-discriminatory pedagogy to nursing education that has been primarily framed by White educators using Eurocentric models of education (Zappas et al, 2021). Similar to Dual Admission, Dual Enrollment programs for associate-to-baccalaureate degrees, a dual degree pathway for baccalaureate-tomaster's degree allows for simultaneous enrollment in a master's-level program.…”

“…For nurse educators to engage in Critical Anti-discriminatory Pedagogy (CADP), nursing must provide care for patients using a race-conscious lens that considers race as a social construct rather than a risk factor or a cause of disease and requires that the Social Determinants of Health be taken into consideration in all educational contexts (Zappas et al, 2021). Social Determinants of Health are defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) as "conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play that affect a wide range of health and quality-of liferisks and outcomes" (para.…”

Orientation of the Registered Nurse to the Perinatal Setting

“…Hospital administrators, nurse managers, and other nurse leaders such as preceptors, educators, and clinical nurse specialists should develop training programs to enhance the orientee's self-efficacy in diversity, inclusion, and equity to enhance the delivery of quality care to diverse patients, families, and communities (Piggott & Cariaga-Lo, 2019;Zappas et al, 2021). The exchange of ideas and open communication is encouraged and supported in the presence of differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, social class, or disability (Piggott & Cariaga-Lo, 2019).…”