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Are We Teaching Nurses to Be Racist towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples? A Critical Race Document Analysis of Discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Courses

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  • Keera Laccos-Barrett

    (UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
    College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia)

  • Angela Elisabeth Brown

    (UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia)

  • Vicki Saunders

    (Central Queensland University, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia)

  • Katherine Lorraine Baldock

    (Teaching Innovation Unit, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia)

  • Roianne West

    (Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives, Murarrie, QLD 4172, Australia
    Workforce Innovation, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0810, Australia)

Abstract

Background: Racism is responsible for health inequity and the harm perpetrated upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by white institutions, building on attitudes and beliefs dominated by assumptions of white superiority. The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework ‘Curriculum Framework’, released in 2014, was introduced to provide a framework for nursing programs and included the introduction of discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health courses to draw attention to the relationship between racism health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within health care settings. Methods: Using an Indigenist research paradigm with Colonial Critical Race Theory as the methodology and framework, this study presents a document analysis of discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health courses taught in undergraduate nursing programs at 31 Australian Universities. Results: This work draws on the collective activism of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses in challenging the systemic racism embedded in the Australian nursing curriculum. We demonstrate the utility of the Racial Segregation Audit Tool (RSAT), as an innovative approach to identify and respond to racism embedded in course learning outcomes. Conclusions: This study explores and uncovers how the learning outcomes assert the social construction of race as a tool of oppressive segregation.

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  • Keera Laccos-Barrett & Angela Elisabeth Brown & Vicki Saunders & Katherine Lorraine Baldock & Roianne West, 2022. "Are We Teaching Nurses to Be Racist towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples? A Critical Race Document Analysis of Discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Courses," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(18), pages 1-16, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:18:p:11455-:d:912601
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    1. Keera Laccos-Barrett & Angela Elisabeth Brown & Roianne West & Katherine Lorraine Baldock, 2022. "Are Australian Universities Perpetuating the Teaching of Racism in Their Undergraduate Nurses in Discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Courses? A Critical Race Document Analysis Protocol," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(13), pages 1-15, June.
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