Nursing

Provides brief information, updates, and progress on initiatives taking place in each of four regions: Western, Prairie, Central, and Atlantic.

Conditions on reservations challenge health care delivery which culturally appropriate practices may help to address.

Study examines how tradition can address health issues and explores the link between traditional methods and holism in nursing.

Statistics reveal that the number of Aboriginal people trained to work in health careers over a ten year period exceeds the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada research results regarding "Aboriginal nursing education, workplace issues, organizational capacity building, and Aboriginal health generally."

Discusses educational training possibilities for young people wanting to be health workers to serve in their home communities.

Discusses a survey conducted by the Association of University Schools of Nursing as a follow-up to the original report entitled Against the Odds: Aboriginal Nursing, published in 2002.

Fact sheet gives statistics on status of the Aboriginal Registered Nursing workforce in Canada based on the 2016 Census.

Nursing Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2006.

Looks at partnership between Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada and the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada to develop core competencies curriculum and efforts to recruit Aboriginals into health care professions. Special focus on the University of Saskatchewan's programs.

Survey investigated demographic characteristics, work settings, nursing practice, satisfaction, recruitment and retention and policy implications.

Highlights issues, provides several examples of successful Aboriginal-women-specific policies and programs, and makes recommendations.

Nursing Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2005.

Strategies proposed to increase student success were: appointing Indigenous nursing professors; partnerships between nursing schools and Indigenous Education Support Units; and tailored cross-cultural awareness programs.

Series of short stories on health care practices on several remote islands in the Torres Strait, Australia.

Several Aboriginal health workers describe their work and nurse training experiences in the Australian Outback healthcare system.

Brief article describes a health worker's visit to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to observe a nursing outreach programme there.

Argues that nursing work helped to expand colonialism by causing loss of indigenous health practises.

Nursing Thesis (M.N.)--University of Manitoba, 2005.

Findings are organized into five themes: preparation; recruitment; admission, nursing access and bridging programs; progression; and post-graduate recruitment and retention. Includes recommendations made by stakeholder groups with respect to each of the areas.

Summary of progress for the years 2001-2006. Ninety-one schools were surveyed regarding the number of seats available/filled, location of access programs, special admission categories, nature of support programs, and number of Aboriginal faculty.

Limited list of authors. Updated version. Originally published 2002.

Updated version. Originally published 2002.

Updated version. Originally published 2002.

Book review of: American Indian Health and Nursing edited by Margaret P. Moss.

Investigates how the Sioux, who interacted with field nurses, evaluated the nurses' work against traditional Sioux medicine standards.

Describes the changing and inconsistent character of remote nursing practice and the concerns this raises for basic standards of safe health care.

Defines "remote", discusses transfer of health services control, impact on nursing, band-employed nurses, and educational preparation. Scroll to p. 126.

Study of seven nursing students identifies eighteen barriers for educational success.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2006.

Survey of primary care providers to identify issues relating to communication, clinical support and patient evaluation.

Highlights how culture influences pain expression by Indigenous people and critically analyses how non-Indigenous nurses approach pain assessment.

Public Health, Health Services and Policy Research Thesis (MPH)--Lakehead University, 2009.

Briefly speaks about a deaf and mute Aboriginal man trying to get assistance in a hospital.

Native American nurses facilitate and promote balance and harmony through connectedness.

Reports on research findings related to how the Cherokee male achieves self-reliance and how health care professionals can incorporate the Cherokee concept of self-reliance into health care.

Explores the opportunities and challenges facing Native American health care delivery and examines nursing policy issues pertinent to the current state of the Indian Health Service (IHS).

Presents a tribute to three of Canada's earliest Aboriginal nurses, Isobel "Bella" Jenny Healy Toth, Nora Gladstone Baldwin and Jennie Tallow Nielsen.

Purpose was to test reliability of short form based on 130 breastfeeding women in an attempt to provide more support.

Nursing Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 2005.

Looks at the use of on-line courses and webinars to exchange knowledge and information on approaches to health care.

Nursing Thesis (M.N.)--University of Manitoba, 2011.

Discussion of the Nunavut Act which required that 80 per cent of the nursing positions in Nunavut be occupied by Inuit and the creation of BScN program.

Presents a study that looks at the community health nursing workforce in Canada.

Promotes idea that aboriginal health workers can use their knowledge and cultural and social background to help city nurses understand the needs of their patients.

Examines diversity in intergenerational families and social support patterns that affect the care of older generations.

Book review of: Caregiving on the Periphery edited by Myra Rutherdale.

Discusses a three day workshop designed to introduce a model of a support group for expectant mothers to meet their emotional and physical needs.