Capturing Intersections of Discrimination: Quantitative Analysis of Nursing Students' Experiences
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Published on: June 21, 2010
Allie Slemon1, Ingrid Handlovsky, Shivinder Dhari
1Author Affiliations: School of Nursing, Human & Social Development, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (Drs Slemon and Handlovsky); and School of Nursing, School of Health and Human Services, Camosun College, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (Ms Dhari).
Abstract:
While prior literature has established that nursing students experience racism, mental health stigma, and ableism within their programs, there is a dearth of knowledge of how students experience discrimination more broadly, across intersecting identities. This analysis draws on Crenshaw's intersectionality theory to conduct an intersectional analysis of cross-sectional survey data of nursing students' experiences of discrimination. Results illustrate that discrimination operates in complex ways across students' social locations, as experiences of intersecting impacts of racism, homophobia/transphobia, mental health stigma, religious discrimination, ableism, and other forms of discrimination. Such experiences further unfold across clinical, classroom, and policy contexts.
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