Publications by authors named "A G Slemon"
Aim: This research aimed to explore nursing students' experiences and perspectives on discrimination within nursing programs across classroom and clinical contexts, as well as structural discrimination through institutional policies and processes.
Design: Convergent mixed methods.
Methods: Survey and individual interviews to capture students' experiences and perspectives on discrimination within nursing programs.
Objective: This scoping review seeks to identify what is known about the role of liaisons who support two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual (2SLGBTQIA+) people receiving care in health-service settings, and specifically, how the 2SLGBTQIA+ liaison role is defined and characterized.
Introduction: To mitigate the stigma and discrimination experienced by 2SLGBTQIA+ people in health-service settings, a 2SLBGTQIA+ liaison position was initiated at a Canadian hospital. A comprehensive understanding of the 2SLGBTQIA+ liaison role is integral to the implementation of 2SLGBTQIA+ liaison positions in health-service settings globally.
Article Synopsis
- Social justice is a key value in nursing, but there's confusion about its meaning and limited research on how nurses apply it in practice, especially in emergency departments.
- This study uses discourse analysis to explore how nurses talk about and represent social justice within their work context, revealing dominant and overlooked perspectives.
- Findings indicate that while the prevalent view of social justice is tied to distributional issues, nurses also advocate for a systemic approach that helps them address and combat inequities through practices like triage, harm reduction, and care planning.
While prior literature has established that nursing students experience racism, mental health stigma, and ableism within their programs, there is a dearth of knowledge of how students experience discrimination more broadly, across intersecting identities. This analysis draws on Crenshaw's intersectionality theory to conduct an intersectional analysis of cross-sectional survey data of nursing students' experiences of discrimination. Results illustrate that discrimination operates in complex ways across students' social locations, as experiences of intersecting impacts of racism, homophobia/transphobia, mental health stigma, religious discrimination, ableism, and other forms of discrimination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRedressing discrimination in Canadian nursing programs: Student perspectives.
Nurse Educ Pract
October 2024
Aim /objective: To identify strategies nursing students recommend for responding to discrimination in their program.
Background: The nursing discipline is rooted in social justice, which is increasingly positioned as practices that seek to enhance equity in health and healthcare. Yet, a growing body of knowledge indicates nursing students experience discrimination by virtue of race, sexual identity, gender identity, ability and mental health in nursing programs.