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A unified call to action from Australian nursing and midwifery leaders: ensuring that Black lives matter

2020; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 56; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10376178.2020.1809107

1839-3535

Lynore Geia, Kathleen Baird, Kasia Bail, Lesley Barclay, Jessica Bennett, Odette Best, Melanie Birks, Luke S. Blackley, Renee Blackman, Ann Bonner, R. Bryant AO, Cherisse Buzzacott, Sandra Campbell, Christine Catling, Catherine Chamberlain, Leonie Cox, Wendy Cross, Marilyn Cruickshank, Allison Cummins, Hannah Dahlen, John Daly, Philip Darbyshire, Patricia M. Davidson, Elizabeth Denney‐Wilson, Ruth De Souza, Kerrie E Doyle, Ali Drummond, Jed Duff, Christine Duffield, Trisha Dunning, Leah East, Doug Elliott, Rakime Elmir, D. Fergie OAM, Caleb Ferguson, Ritin Fernandez, Dulcie Flower, Maralyn Foureur, Cathrine Fowler, Margaret Fry, Edward Gorman, Julian Grant, Joanne Gray, Elizabeth Halcomb, Bethne Hart, Donna Hartz, Michael Hazelton, Leeanne Heaton, Louise Hickman, Caroline S. E. Homer AO, Catherine Hungerford, Alison Hutton, Dean Ao, Amanda Johnson, Michelle Kelly, Alison Kitson, Sabina Knight, Tracy Levett‐Jones, David Lindsay, Raymond Lovett, Lauretta Luck, Luke Molloy, Elizabeth Manias, Judy Mannix, Anne Marriott, Mackenzie K. Martin, Debbie Massey, Andrea McCloughen, Shirley McGough, Linda McGrath, Jane Mills, Brett G. Mitchell, Janine Mohamed, Jed Montayre, Tracey Moroney, Wendy Moyle, Lorna Moxham, Holly Northam, Shelley Nowlan, Anthony O’Brien, Olayide Ogunsiji, Catherine Paterson, Karen Pennington, Kath Peters, Jane Phillips, Tamara Power, Nicholas Procter, Lucie M. Ramjan, Nadine Ramsay, Bodil Rasmussen, John Rihari‐Thomas, B. Rind, Melanie Robinson, Michael Roche, Kathryn Sainsbury, Yenna Salamonson, Juanita Sherwood, Linda Shields, Jenny Sim, Isabelle Skinner, Gracelyn Smallwood, Reakeeta Smallwood, Leigh Stewart, Stuart Taylor, Kim Usher, Claudia Virdun, J. Wannell, Raelene Ward, Caryn West, Roianne West, Lesley Wilkes, Robyn Williams, Rhonda Wilson, Dianne Wynaden, Rochelle Wynne,

Education Systems and Policy

Nurses and midwives of Australia now is the time for change! As powerfully placed, Indigenous and non-Indigenous nursing and midwifery professionals, together we can ensure an effective and robust Indigenous curriculum in our nursing and midwifery schools of education. Today, Australia finds itself in a shifting tide of social change, where the voices for better and safer health care ring out loud. Voices for justice, equity and equality reverberate across our cities, our streets, homes, and institutions of learning. It is a call for new songlines of reform. The need to embed meaningful Indigenous health curricula is stronger now than it ever was for Australian nursing and midwifery. It is essential that nursing and midwifery leadership continue to build an authentic collaborative environment for Indigenous curriculum development. Bipartisan alliance is imperative for all academic staff to be confident in their teaching and learning experiences with Indigenous health syllabus. This paper is a call out. Now is the time for Indigenous and non-Indigenous nurses and midwives to make a stand together, for justice and equity in our teaching, learning, and practice. Together we will dismantle systems, policy, and practices in health that oppress. The Black Lives Matter movement provides us with a ‘now window’ of accepted dialogue to build a better, culturally safe Australian nursing and midwifery workforce, ensuring that Black Lives Matter in all aspects of health care.