Black nurse in white space? Rethinking the in/visibility of race within the Australian nursing workplace

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-164

  Mapedzahama, Virginia ^a   Rudge, Trudy ^a   West, Sandra ^a   Perron, Amelie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

African nurses; Migration; Nursing; Racial prejudice; Racism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NEGRO; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NURSING; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WORKPLACE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PREJUDICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84860265418     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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