Nursing in a culture of peace.

Background: The knowledge and practice in the field of peacebuilding is congruent with nursing and offers important dimensions and insight that can strengthen the work of nurses in building healthy communities and individuals.

Purpose: This article summarizes key literature and discussions with faculty in each field to outline impactful opportunities for interprofessional collaboration around peace and health.

Methods: An iterative process of reviewing theory and practice in each field produces a structured comparison of major commonalities and differences.

Experiences of dehumanizing: Examining secondary victimization within the nurse-patient relationship among African American women survivors of sexual assault in the Upper Midwest.

Despite calls recognizing the need for culturally sensitive responses to minimize the occurrence of secondary victimization for African American women following an experience of sexual assault, few studies have focused on hearing from African American women survivors about their experiences receiving healthcare services in a hospital setting following sexual assault. Employing critical ethnography as our methodology and using intersectionality theory as a lens, we centered the voices of African American women survivors about their experiences receiving nursing care in urban acute care or hospital settings in the Upper Midwest of the United States following sexual assault. In this qualitative study, 30 African American women survivors were interviewed using in-depth, semi-structured interviews about their post-sexual assault care.