By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
You can use your smart phone to browse stories in the comfort of your hand. Simply browse this site on your smart phone.
Using an RSS Reader you can access most recent stories and other feeds posted on this network.
SNetwork Recent Storiesby ahnationtalk on November 20, 2018468 Views
‘Every health-care provider needs this education,’ says instructor
Nov 19, 2018
Future nursing students at the University of New Brunswick will have to take a mandatory course in Indigenous health starting next fall and for Shelley Francis, director of the Indigenous nursing program at UNB, it’s a long time coming.
“Let’s face it, racism is pervasive across the country but when our people start experiencing undue stress and are choosing not to access health care for fear of experiencing racism, we have a problem,” said Francis, a Wolastoqiyik woman from Neqotkuk/Tobique First Nation.
She’s spent 27 years in the health-care field and said she has faced racism. Francis said her peers would call her ‘Pocahontas’ or ask if she lived in a teepee. She said she was so disheartened by those interactions that she was hesitant to identify as Indigenous.
Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/unb-nursing-mandatory-course-indigenous-health-1.4911386
Clients: | No Clients |
---|
Categories: | Education, Mainstream Aboriginal Related News |
---|
This article comes from NationTalk:
https://nationtalk.ca
The permalink for this story is:
https://nationtalk.ca/story/nursing-students-at-university-of-new-brunswick-to-take-mandatory-course-in-indigenous-health-cbc
Comments are closed.