Initiatives in Indigenous Nursing

	Cultural Safety Modules Module One http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/csafety/mod1/index.htm Module Two http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/csafety/mod2/index.htm Module Three http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/csafety/mod3/index.htm
	If you wish to reference these modules, the reference is as follows with the appropriate module number(s) and retrieval date(s) inserted: Dick, S., Duncan, S., Gillie, J., Mahara, S., Morris, J., Smye, V., & Voyageur, E. (2006). Cultural safety: Module 1: People's experiences of colonization. Retrieved Oct 21, 2008, from http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/csafety/mod1/index.htm For more information contact Joan Gillie, jgillie@uvic.ca.

News from current initiatives in Indigenous nursing

Indigenous Health Career Fair, Tofino, October 2009.
Fourth year nursing students Lara Des Roches and Heather Montgomery role model nursing to young people.

The UVic School of Nursing has numerous initiatives underway in Indigenous nursing. The School is currently partnered with Tsawout First Nation in Saanich, BC on the Reciprocal Partnership Model in Nursing Education Project, funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, Aboriginal Special Projects for 2007-2008.  Tsawout/Saanich and UVic BSN students in NURS 351: Promoting Community and Societal Health and NURS: 431:Engaging in Leadership are paired or working in small groups in each others’ communities and learning environments to develop health related projects that will directly benefit Tsawout and Saanich communities. Regularly scheduled activities include the students being together in class at UVic, in health settings and in the Tsawout/Saanich communities.

Activities continued on the Reciprocal Partnership Model in Nursing Education project through 2008 and 2009 with Health Department staff providing mentorship and guidance. Project activities are gradually being integrated into the work of the School of Nursing and the community in order to facilitate sustainability. Leadership and initiative come from the community and contribute directly to the transformation of nursing education experiences and curricula thus supporting the goals of reciprocity.

The School of Nursing has also been part of the Learning Circles for Aboriginal Nursing since 2004. Numerous initiatives are facilitated by this group of indigenous nurses on Vancouver Island that includes Camosun College, North Island College, local health authorities, VIHA and numerous community members. The School of Nursing has also developed a role model video for young people. Copies are available no charge by emailing slietaer@uvic.ca.  Also, please check out the Cultural Safety Modules, three web-based self-study modules introducing Aboriginal people’s experiences of health.

See Story in Victoria Times Colonist

Listen to CBC recording with Rhonda Underwood (co-coordinator and student Katie Mills

The WRCASN Education Innovation Award 2007 to the Reciprocal Partnership Model in Nursing Education. This award supports a project designed to advance learning in nursing education.  It can take a variety of forms such as technology, creative reconfiguration of a curriculum or a course within a curriculum, online learning, or innovative clinical experience.  In the Reciprocal Partnership Model in Nursing Education, a Tsawout and UVic Nursing initiative, third and fourth year nursing learners and Tsawout-Saanich secondary and adult learners are engaged in health-related projects in the community that will culminate in a health and career fair on March 7, 2008.  In this reciprocal mentorship relationship, community students also come to campus, joining their UVic counterparts in classroom learning and related university activities, facilitating their exploration of possible careers as health professionals.  Partnerships with older people and other community members have ensured that the curriculum blueprint is explicitly culturally safe, anti-racist, and facilitative of reconciliation. The team for the Reciprocal Partnership Model award in Nursing Education is

• Joan Gillie, UVic Project Co-Leader
• Jane Milliken, UVic faculty
• All participants at UVic and in the community
• Instructors:  Diana Campbell and Carolyn Hammond
• Fran Hunt Jinnouchi, Director of UVic Indigenous Affairs & Project Co-Leader
• Othmar Arnold, UVic Project Co-coordinator
• Rhonda Underwood, Tsawout Project Co-coordinator
• Marc Jinnouchi, Tsawout Project Co-Leader
• Richard Veerapen, Tsawout Project Co-Leader

See Story in Victoria Times Colonist