by admin | Mar 26, 2018 | Australia, Cultural safety, Indigenous, Inequalities, Multiculturalism, Nursing, Power relations, Racism, Writing
The new Codes of Conduct for Nurses and Midwives in Australia have made the news. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) have set expectations around culturally safe practice in the health system for nurses and midwives who comprise the largest workforce...
by admin | Jan 4, 2018 | Cultural safety, Education, Health, Inequalities, Nursing, Power relations, Professional development
As a clinician and educator, I have long been interested in how to prepare nurses for professional practice. Schon uses a metaphor of terrain made up of high, hard ground overlooking a swamp which Street (1991) has extended to nursing practice. While some clinical...
by admin | Jul 17, 2017 | Cultural safety, Health, Inequalities, Maternity, Racism, Refugees, Research
Social and economic disadvantage are important contributors to poor maternal and perinatal outcomes in high-income countries such as Australia. For example Australian research shows women from refugee backgrounds have higher rates of stillbirth, fetal death in utero...
by admin | May 15, 2017 | Cultural safety, Education, Feminism, Inequalities, Power relations, Research, Writing
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale focuses on women living in a theocratic totalitarian regime in a newly created dystopian, pronatalist society called Gilead. The regime attributes declining fertility to women’s rights, same sex relationships and an...
by admin | Dec 4, 2016 | Australia, Cultural safety, digital health, Digital inclusion, Health, Inequalities, Multiculturalism, Research, self-tracking, Technology, wearable technology, Writing
I am visiting the University of Auckland as an international speaker for the Research Café on Migration & Inequality being organised by the Faculty of Science and School of Population Health. The Research Café is a project of the Engaged Social Science Research...
by admin | Aug 19, 2016 | Cultural safety, digital health, Digital inclusion, Health, Inequalities, Migration, Multiculturalism, Research, self-tracking, Technology, wearable technology
Written for and first published in in the August 2016 edition of Nurse Click (the Australian College of Nursing’s monthly electronic, interactive PDF publication available to ACN members, and to stakeholders, the wider nursing and non-nursing community who subscribe...
