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 | 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 | Jul 16, 2016 | Australia, Colonialism, Cultural safety, Education, Indigenous, Inequalities, Nursing, Power relations, Racism, Writing
by admin | Jul 16, 2016 | Australia, Cultural safety, Education, Forum theatre, Inequalities, Power relations, Professional development, Racism, Writing
Unpublished manuscript for those who might be interested. Cite as: DeSouza, R. (2016, July 16). Using forum theatre to facilitate reflection and culturally safe practice in nursing [Web log post]. Retrieved from:...
by admin | Jun 11, 2003 | Consumer participation, Cultural safety, Education, Inequalities, Mental health, Power relations, Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi, Writing
In 1998 I began teaching the first mental health support work cohorts in New Zealand at Unitec Institute of Technology. I had the privilege of working with Maori and Pacific mental health workers, peer support workers and consumer providers until 2005. I wrote this...
