Culturally Safe Neonatal Care: Talking With Health Practitioners Identified as Champions by Indigenous Families
The burden of health inequities borne by Indigenous peoples can be overwhelming, especially when mothers and newborns' lives are at stake and health services seem slow to invest in responsiveness. In Aotearoa (New Zealand), urgent action is required to eliminate persistent systemic inequities for Māori (Indigenous) whānau (family collectives that extend beyond the household). This Kaupapa Māori (by Māori, for Māori) qualitative study, published in Qualitative Health Research, aimed to explore the views of health practitioners identified as champions by whānau of preterm Māori infants.
From Kaimahi to Enrolled Nurse: A Successful Workforce Initiative to Increase Māori Nurses in Primary Health Care
A culturally competent health workforce is critical to achieving equitable health outcomes for Māori people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Fundamental to this goal is the urgent need to not only increase numbers of Māori nurses but to enable them to deliver innovative models of care that are responsive to the unmet need of whānau (family) and hapori (community). This article, published in Nursing Praxis, describes a national initiative to increase the capacity and capability of the Indigenous workforce by supporting kaimahi (unregulated health workers) to become enrolled nurses delivering holistic care within their own communities.
The Māori Student Nurse Experience of Cohorting: Enhancing Retention and Professional Identity as a Māori Nurse
Despite decades of work by tertiary providers to increase the Māori nursing workforce, there has been little change in the numbers of Māori nurses graduating from schools of nursing. The call for more culturally responsive teaching and learning strategies saw one tertiary provider implement Māori student cohorts for labs and tutorials in year one and two of the Bachelor of Health Science Nursing programme. This research, published in Nursing Praxis, explored the student experience of the cohorts using a hermeneutic methodology within a Māori-centred approach.