Breaking the chains: Decolonizing the language of Nursology.

Nurs Philos

Department of Family Health Care Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.

Published: April 2023

In this article, I discuss the concept of 'Decolonizing Nursing', answering what this process is about, and how and when it should be done. I introduce the idea of epistemological dominance and the concepts of colonization and decolonization of nursing knowledge. I describe my experiences of coming from Latin America and facing Anglo-Saxon academy to discuss core disciplinary nursing knowledge and provide reflections around the decolonization of nursing language.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nup.12422DOI Listing

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