More BIPOC nurses needed to ensure culturally safe health care, says First Nation nurse – CBC

Mar 04, 2022

The Canadian Nurses Foundation is offering a scholarship to 19 people across the country

Isabelle Wallace fondly remembers the difference it made for a patient in Ottawa when Wallace recognized the wampum belt tattoo on the patient’s arm.

“Just by saying that and being First Nations and being culturally aware and sensitive … her eyes lit up and then that’s how we started talking about our respective nations,” said Wallace, who is now the community health nurse in Madawaska Maliseet First Nation.

Wampum belts are used by many Indigenous nations to share stories of important events, or to keep records.

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