Calling All Nurses Episode 2 - Dawn Tisdale with Anti-Indigenous Racism in Healthcare
04/19/23 • 28 min
Indigenous stereotyping, racism, and discrimination is not only widespread in healthcare, but limits medical access and treatment, particularly disproportionately impacting Indigenous girls and women (In Plain Sight, 2020). Healthcare personnel, administrators, educators, and governments know this. What has changed, if anything, and what will it take to change? Listen as Dawn tells us about her career, what policy can do and what still needs to be addressed. How does one make it happen?
Dawn Tisdale is a Registered Nurse of mixed Mi’kmaq and European ancestry and is the Indigenous Senior Professional Practice Lead for BC Children & Women’s Hospitals Indigenous Health Program. Dawn’s research and advocacy efforts are grounded in disrupting anti-Indigenous racism in support of health equity to improve access and services for Indigenous Peoples. Most importantly, she is committed to heart centered leadership to support systems change.
UNDRIP: United Nations Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples - https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action - https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/british-columbians-our-governments/indigenous-people/aboriginal-peoples-documents/calls_to_action_english2.pdf
In Plain Sight Full Report: https://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/613/2020/11/In-Plain-Sight-Full-Report-2020.pdf
Instagram: @calling.all.nurses
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Indigenous stereotyping, racism, and discrimination is not only widespread in healthcare, but limits medical access and treatment, particularly disproportionately impacting Indigenous girls and women (In Plain Sight, 2020). Healthcare personnel, administrators, educators, and governments know this. What has changed, if anything, and what will it take to change? Listen as Dawn tells us about her career, what policy can do and what still needs to be addressed. How does one make it happen?
Dawn Tisdale is a Registered Nurse of mixed Mi’kmaq and European ancestry and is the Indigenous Senior Professional Practice Lead for BC Children & Women’s Hospitals Indigenous Health Program. Dawn’s research and advocacy efforts are grounded in disrupting anti-Indigenous racism in support of health equity to improve access and services for Indigenous Peoples. Most importantly, she is committed to heart centered leadership to support systems change.
UNDRIP: United Nations Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples - https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action - https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/british-columbians-our-governments/indigenous-people/aboriginal-peoples-documents/calls_to_action_english2.pdf
In Plain Sight Full Report: https://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/613/2020/11/In-Plain-Sight-Full-Report-2020.pdf
Instagram: @calling.all.nurses
Comments and feedback can be sent to our email: [email protected]
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Calling All Nurses Episode 1 - Introduction to Season One
This introductory episode introduces the co-hosts Betty, Martha, and RaeAnn and explains how and why they chose to do this podcast. There are a new generation of nurses making change in challenging times and in Season 1, this trio want to give voice to their advocacy, innovation, policy making, political action, and social justice. These new leaders are disrupting tradition and inspiring innovation to change while keeping the core beliefs, values, and morals of nursing at the heart for patients, clients, families, communities, and society. This first season focuses on current health issues and the guests are all former students of these co-hosts when they were nurse educators. We are truly excited for this launch and can't wait for you to join us and listen!
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Calling All Nurses Episode 3 - Shanyn Simcoe and the Toxic Drug Poisoning Epidemic
Approximately 11,171 deaths are attributed to the toxic drug poisoning since the public health emergency was declared in April, 2016. In B.C., the Coroner’s service reports approximately 6 lives lost every day to drug toxicity. These numbers will only continue to climb by day, month, and year as more deaths are investigated. Listen as Shanyn describes her call to action and how she gets the attention of political leaders to create change. Shanyn is the first to admit that never in a million years did she think her nursing career would be linked to political action, adeptly sharing how and where change happens.
Shanyn Simcoe, is a registered nurse of settler and Indigenous ancestry raised in Treaty 13 territory and currently residing on the unceded and traditional territory of the K’omox Nation. Shanyn’s nursing career has been predominantly in direct-care in acute psychiatry, primary care, and community-based Mental Health and Substance Use with a recent shift to a regional quality and safety leadership role following completion of an advanced practice leadership graduate degree. For her, in addition to being an inherent responsibility, political activism is also an act of self-care.
*Correction for the episode: Shanyn was put in touch with the Hedican family in early 2018, not 2017 as stated.
Stop Overdose B.C.: https://www.stopoverdose.gov.bc.ca
British Columbia Centre on Substance Use: https://www.bccsu.ca
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