Context for Practice: Nurses reflect on their own position and privilege and demonstrate cultural humility as they learn about other individuals’ values and beliefs. Nurses understand the impact of racism, systemic racism and discrimination, and adopt anti-racist and inclusive approaches to their practice with diverse clients. Nurses use trauma-informed approaches to provide culturally safe care. Nurses in formal and informal leadership roles foster culturally safe workplaces.
| Ethical Responsibilities: Nurses support the equality rights of all people to be free of oppression, exclusion, racism and discrimination by |
| 5.2.1 |
reflecting on and acknowledging their personal and professional power and privilege; |
| 5.2.2 |
demonstrating cultural humility and allyship through ongoing reflection of their own values, assumptions, biases and beliefs while learning from and honouring the values, assumptions, and beliefs of others as well as expertise that people have about their own culture; |
| 5.2.3 |
developing their knowledge of racism (including anti-Black, anti-Indigenous and anti-Asian racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, linguistic racism, etc.,), systemic racism, conscious/unconscious biases, gender-based biases, biases against 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals and communities, and discrimination and the resulting impacts on the health and well-being of people, including those with intersecting identities; |
| 5.2.4 |
developing their knowledge of trauma and resilience and using trauma-informed approaches and authentic allyship practices when working with diverse clients; |
| 5.2.5 |
respecting the rights of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples to be free from racism and discrimination and speaking out against oppressive, racist and/or discriminatory practices toward Indigenous clients; |
| 5.2.6 |
addressing and reporting, and refraining from engaging in, discriminatory behaviours based on a person’s race, ethnicity, national origin, age, health or economic status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, culture, varying abilities/disabilities, language, religion, spirituality, values and beliefs; |
| 5.2.7 |
refraining from judging, labelling, stigmatizing and any form of microaggressions toward clients, colleagues (including toward novice practitioners, internationally educated nurses, 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, etc.), other health-care providers and students; and |
| 5.2.8 |
seeking knowledge and support from colleagues and/or other health-care providers to assist in providing culturally safe and responsive care. |
In addition, nurses in formal or informal leadership (e.g., administration, clinical care, education, policy and research) roles support diverse, anti-oppressive, anti-racist, discrimination-free and inclusive environments by
| 5.2.9 |
fostering a culture that supports workplace diversity and diversity of thought while advocating for the right of nurses to practise in a workplace that is free from oppression, racism, exclusion and discrimination in all its forms; and |
| 5.2.10 |
working with others to create policies and processes to prevent, resolve and continuously monitor and evaluate workplace conflicts (e.g., for continuous improvement) related to oppression, racism, exclusion or discrimination, and to support nurses in cases where oppression, racism, exclusion or discrimination occurs. |