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Shifting Nursing Students' Attitudes Towards Indigenous Peoples By Participation In A Required Indigenous Health Course, Rebecca Cameron, Kim Mitchell

Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière

Background: Increasing evidence shows that Indigenous Peoples of Canada experience greater health disparities and receive lesser quality of health care services than non-Indigenous Canadian people. There is an important need to educate health care professionals to be knowledgeable about Indigenous culture, Canadian history, and culturally safe care.

Purpose: This project aimed to evaluate if student perceptions of Indigenous Peoples, knowledge of Indigenous culture, and a student’s cultural competency improved through participation in a required Indigenous health course in the third year of one Canadian Bachelor of Nursing program.

Methods: A pretest posttest design measured student self-reported Knowledge of Factors Impacting …