C03-1 The Blanket Exercise: An Innovative Educational Tool for Teaching Culturally Safe Nursing Practice

 

Author: Elizabeth White-MacDonald, RN, BScN, MN

 

Purpose: To describe an experience implementing the Blanket Exercise; an educational innovation where students were provided an opportunity to participate in a culturally specific participatory action learning opportunity relevant to the history of Indigenous colonization and to apply the knowledge gained to culturally appropriate registered nursing practice.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the student experience of an Indigenous colonization-related participatory action activity in an undergraduate nursing course.
• Discuss the outcomes associated with the student experience to promote culturally safe registered nursing practice.
• Discuss how this new-found knowledge can be utilized to promote collaboration with Indigenous Peoples within registered nursing practice with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of women, children and families.

Presenter: Elizabeth White-MacDonald, MacEwan University, Edmonton AB

 

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C03-2 “What's It Really Like?': An Innovative Strategy for Building Capacity and Sharing Tacit Knowledge with BScN Students Interested in Perinatal Nursing and Reproductive Health

 

Authors: Anne Simmonds, RN, PhD; Manjit Dhanoa-Yasi, RN, MN; Melissa Kaups, HBA

 

Purpose: This presentation aims to stimulate reflection and discussion about strategies to promote much needed capacity building, networking and knowledge sharing in the preparation of future perinatal and reproductive health nurses.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the factors influencing education and training of pre-licensure BScN students in the areas of perinatal nursing and reproductive health.
• Describe the process of developing and implementing a collaborative student-faculty initiative to address current gaps in educational opportunities.
• Identify specific strategies for increasing capacity for training and educating future perinatal nurses within their educational and practice-based settings.

Presenters: Anne Simmonds, Manjit Dhanoa-Yasi, and Melissa Kaups, University of Toronto, Toronto ON