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Decolonize the history of nursing by magnifying the contributions of nurses of colour.

Jennifer Woo
Published in: Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals (2023)
In this paper, I write about nurses of colour who have made significant contributions to nursing, yet are actively ignored in traditional nursing textbooks related to colonized thinking. One consequence of this is that when we think about comparing the disparities of the past to the present day, we see that we have not made much of a difference. The disparity is still huge. I call on all of us as nurses to challenge ourselves to think beyond the box of colonized thought to what we know is true.
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