This is a nursing women’s health movement using critical perspective, this final scholarly paper is on a select diverse group for example if your focus is cisgender indigenous women you have to If your focus is cisgender Indigenous women, please consider the following: As I understand it, about 2/3 of Canadian Indigenous people live in urban areas and about 1/3 on reserve. Those on reserves have health supports that are federally funded rather than provincially, that adds to the complexity in a nursing/health context. One way to address this in your paper is to narrow the focus to those those living in Canadian urban areas, for instance. However, another thing is to consider how you are situated with respect to Indigenous communities if this is the group you are focusing on. Do keep in mind whose voices you are prioritizing in your paper. If you have not already done so, you should be reading foundational documents from Canadian Schools of Nursing (CASN), for instance about key aspects of working with Indigenous communities on Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) strategies, etc. There are Canadian nursing researchers such as several from University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of Victoria or Western University who have been working closely with Indigenous women communities on a range of health issues, for instance. Their research, using a critical lens, often addresses the complexities of nursing practice and research with/for Indigenous women and Indigenous-specific social determinants of health, so you may find their work helpful.
****For a stronger paper, please also consider that whatever population of women you are focusing on (for this paper or in your nursing practice), when you identify strategies to make organizations, programs, services, interactions, etc. truly more inclusive you must take into account that they should aim to be welcoming for all cisgender women, trans and non-binary people across difference. We don’t always have extensive research about all of these communities in relation to specific health issues. We have, however in our course certainly discussed what kinds of things can contribute to a welcoming environment for diverse groups of women. Your group presentations all began with some attention to a Land Acknowledgement/Indigenous principles, for instance which could be relevant. I suggest that you address this issue of inclusivity in a short paragraph, backed up by Canadian scholarly nursing references somewhere in your final paper.
