Nursing Specific Resources

I want to learn more about racism in nursing education

Please see this (2022) special edition of Nursing Inquiry which focuses on anti-racism: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14401800/current

Bell, B. (2020, September). White dominance in nursing education: A target for anti-racist efforts. Nursing Inquiry.

Gardner, J. (2005). Barriers Influencing the Success of Racial and Ethnic Minority Students in Nursing Programs. Journal of Transcultural Nursing16(2), 155–162. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043659604273546

Hamzavi, N. (2021). Exploring the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and people of colour graduate nursing students in white academic spaces (T). The University of British Columbia. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0400136

Mapedzahama, V., Rudge, T., West, S., & Perron, A. (2012). Black nurse in white space? Rethinking the in/visibility of race within the Australian nursing workplace. Nursing Inquiry, 19(2), 153-164. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00556.x

Scammel, J.M.E., & Olumide, G. (2012). Racism and the mentor-student relationship: Nurse education through a white lens. Nurse Education Today, 32, 545-550. 

I want to learn more about anti-racist pedagogy

Hassouneh, D. (2006). Anti-racist pedagogy: Challenges faced by faculty of color in predominantly white schools of nursing. Journal of Nursing Education45(7), 255–262. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20060701-04

Garneau, A.B., Browne, A.J., & Varcoe, C. (2017). Drawing on antiracist approaches toward a critical antidiscriminatory pedagogy for nursing. Nursing Inquiry, 25(e12211), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12211

Cevriye Yüksel Kaçan & Özlem Örsal (2020) Effects of Transcultural Nursing Education on the Professional Values, Empathic Skills, Cultural Sensitivity and Intelligence of Students, Journal of Community Health Nursing, 37:2, 65-76.

I want to learn more about racism in nursing practice

Browne, A. J. (2017). Moving beyond description: Closing the health equity gap by redressing racism impacting Indigenous populations. Social Science and Medicine, 184, 23-26. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2019.1653694

Hilario, C., Browne, A., & McFadden, A. (2017). The influence of democratic racism in nursing inquiry. Nursing Inquiry, 25(e12213), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12213

Jefferies, K., Tamlyn, D., Aston, M., & Murphy, G.T. (2019). Promoting visible minority diversity in Canadian nursing. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 51(1), 3-5. DOI: 10.1177/0844562118795812

O’Flynn-Magee, K., Dhari, R., Rodney, P., & Esson, L. (2021). Commentary: Exploring the intersections between bullying and racism in nursing. Nursing Leadership, 34(3), 34-39. DOI: 10.12927/cjnl.2021.26595

Premji, S., & Etowa, J.B. (2014). Workforce utilization of visible and linguistic minorities in Canadian nursing. Journal of Nursing Management, 22, 80-88. DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2012.01442.x

Vukic, A., Jesty, C., Mathews, V., & Etowa, J. (2012). Understanding race and racism in nursing: Insights from Aboriginal nurses. International Scholarly Research Network, 2012, 1-9. DOI https://doi.org/10.5402/2012/196437

I want to learn more about racism and nursing research

Boyd, R., Lindo, E., Weeks, L., & McLemore, M. (2020, July 2). On racism: A new standard for publishing on racial health inequities. Health Affairshttps://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200630.939347/full/

Reimer Kirkham, S., & Anderson, J. (2002) Postcolonial nursing scholarship: From epistemology to method. Advances in Nursing Science, 25(1), 1-17.

Varcoe, C., Browne, A. J., & Blanchet Garneau, A. (2019). Beyond stress and coping: The relevance of critical theoretical perspectives to conceptualising racial discrimination in health research. Health Sociology Review, 1-16. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2019.1642124

Varcoe, C., Browne, A. J., & Ponic, P. (2013). Promising theoretical contributions to the measurement of racial discrimination: Critical literature review. Retrieved from Ottawa, ON.

I want to learn more about decolonization and nursing

McGibbon, E., Mulaudzi, F., Didham, P., Barton, S., & Sochan, A. (2014). Toward decolonizing nursing: the colonization of nursing and strategies for increasing the counter-narrative. Nursing Inquiry, 21(3), 179-191. DOI: 10.1111/nin.12042

Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 1-40. Available from: http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/18630/15554

I want to learn more about the challenges of collecting race-based data

Cerdena, J., Plaisime, M., & Tsai, J. (2020). From race-based to race-conscious medicine: How anti-racist uprisings call us to act. The Lancet, 396(10257): 1125-1128.

Nelson, A. (2016). The social life of DNA: Race, reparations, and reconciliation after the genome. Beacon Press. 

Roberts, D. E. (2011). Fatal invention: How science, politics and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century. The New Press.

Roberts, D. E. (2021). “Abolish race correction.” Lancet, 397(10268): 17-18.

Tallbear, K. Native American DNA: Tribal belonging and the false promise of genetic science. University of Minnesota Press.

Vyas, D. A., Eisenstein, L. G., & Jones, D. (2020). Hidden in plain sight – Reconsidering the use of race correction in clinical algorithms. New England Journal of Medicine, 383(9): 874-972.

I want to learn more about racism and technology

Benjamin, R. (2019, October 25). Assessing risk, automating racism: A health care algorithm reflects underlying racial bias in society. Social Science, 366(6464): 421-422.

Braun, L. (2014). Breathing race into the machine: The surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics. University of Minnesota Press.

Evans, G (2019). Skin deep: Journeys in the divisive science of race. Oneworld.

Yudell, M. (2014). Race unmasked: biology and race in the twentieth century. Columbia University Press.

I want to learn more about racism and healthcare institutions and practices

McGibbon, E.A., & Etowa, J.B. (2009). Anti-racist healthcare practice. Marquis Book Printing Inc.

Shaheen-Hussain, S. (2020). Fighting for a hand to hold: Confronting medical colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Waxler-Morrison, N., Anderson, J. M., Richardson, E., & Chambers, N. A. (Eds.). (2005). Cross-Cultural Caring (2nd ed.). Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

Mosby, I. (2013). Administering colonial science: nutrition research and human biomedical experimentation in Aboriginal communities and residential schools, 1942-1952. Histoire sociale, 46(91): 145-172.

Riggs, L. (2002). Reproducing empire: Race, sex, science and US imperialism in Puerto Rico. University of California Press.

Washington, H. (2006). Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present. Doubleday Books.