Māori nurse practitioners: The intersection of patient safety and culturally safe care from an Indigenous lens.

Background: Dynamic and complex health systems require innovative and adaptive solutions to support patient safety and achieve equitable health outcomes for Indigenous populations. Understanding the ways by which Indigenous (and specifically Māori) nurse practitioners (NPs) practice patient safety is key to enhancing Indigenous health outcomes in predominantly westernized healthcare systems.

Aim: To describe Māori NPs perspectives on patient safety when caring for Māori and understand how Māori NPs deliver safe health care.

An integrative review of racism in nursing to inform anti-racist nursing praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Aim: To synthesise international literature to identify mechanisms that maintain racism in nursing and understand the factors that contribute to designing and implementing anti-racist praxis to inform nursing in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Design: An integrative literature review was undertaken, integrating Indigenous Kaupapa Māori methodologies to ensure a cultural and philosophical lens.

Methods: Peer-reviewed literature published, between January 2011 and July 2023 were sourced.