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Published on: February 16, 2011
Transformative justice to support truth and reconciliation within nurse-midwifery education
Molly R Altman1, Clare Sherley1, Judy Lazarus2
1Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing, University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Abstract:
Nursing education holds a history framed in white supremacy and whiteness. Efforts to employ antiracist strategies have been hindered, largely due to an inability for faculty to acknowledge and hold accountability for racialized harms that occur within nursing educational structures. A nurse-midwifery program in the Pacific Northwest United States uncovered harm that impacted students and identified a need to respond and hold accountability. Guided by the framework of Transformative Justice, a truth and reconciliation process was implemented as a first step to better address racism within nursing and nurse-midwifery education. This paper describes the process to support other institutions in their work to address harms within nursing education.
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