Browsing by Author "Scott, Michelle Elizabeth"

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    A Qualitative Interpretive Description of Registered Nurses’ Experiences with the Mandatory Indigenous Cultural Competency Education
    (2023-10-31) Morrow, Tracy; Nowell, Lorelli; Clancy, Tracey L; Fedoruk, Lisa Margaret; Scott, Michelle Elizabeth
    When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015) released its final report outlining Calls to Action, healthcare authorities were required to provide nurses with cultural competency education. Nurses employed by Alberta Health Services are now required to complete eight Indigenous Awareness and Sensitivity online modules via the MyLearningLink™ portal within a set timeframe. The purpose of this Interpretive Description research study was to gain an understanding about Alberta Health Services registered nurses’ experiences when completing the modules, how they made meaning of completing the modules, and how they utilized the knowledge obtained from the modules in their nursing practice. Alberta Health Services registered nurses were voluntarily recruited to participate using convenience sampling. Individual, semi-structure interviews were conducted with eight registered nurses via Zoom® to gather data. All interview data were transcribed verbatim and analysed for themes. Three main themes were identified: experiences and perceptions of completing the modules, moving from mandatory to meaningful, and advancing knowledge into practice. Overall, participants felt cultural competency education was important, but the modules lacked opportunity to self-reflect, and participants wanted to engage in deeper learning opportunities.
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    Remembering Msit No'kmaq: Self-in-Relation Métissage
    (2023-04-21) Scott, Michelle Elizabeth; Poitras Pratt, Yvonne; McDermott, Mairi; Donald, Dwayne
    In the spirit of relationship renewal and repair, I ask the question: How can we begin to enact our responsibilities to learn how to be good relatives to each other, the Land, and our other-than-human kin that is outside of the settler-colonial violence that Canada is built on? I suggest a necessary first step is to take our own self-reflective journey(s) of self-in-relation (Graveline, 1998) to locate our unique kinship networks of relationality and responsibility across time and space. In my research, I centred my embodied personal theory-making (Simpson, 2017), kinship relationality (Donald, 2021) and relationships to Land (Simpson, 2014, 2017; Styres, 2011, 2017, 2019) as a Mi’kmaw and Irish/English woman who has lived in Moh’kins’tsis for twenty-two years, was born and raised in Oniatari:io, and has ancestral and kinship ties to my Mi’kmaw relatives in Ktaqmkuk. Through the process of creating my métissage, I came to know and conceptualize colonial shrapnel as the ways in which colonial violence is embedded within our bodies through generations of spiritual, emotional, and blood and bone memory, and Elemental Kinship as a way to repair and heal through direct relationship with the elements – water, fire, earth, and air. I offer these concepts as curricular apertures with an invitation to others who are interested in moving beyond a fractured identity (personally, and collectively) toward a curriculum of remembering msit no’kmaq (all my [their] relations) at their own sacred fire.