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For this episode, Colin is joined by our very first guest: Canadian nurse Amy Hamm. Amy is well known for being persecuted by Canadian nursing regulators simply for stating a basic truth—that males are not females. In our conversation, we dive into a new paper published in Advances in Nursing Science titled “A Scoping Review of Action Toward Decolonizing and Indigenizing Nursing.”
Together, we examine what it really means to “decolonize” and “indigenize” nursing, how these ideas are reshaping healthcare in Canada, and why this ideology ultimately undermines evidence-based medicine. Amy shares her personal experiences, her perspective as a nurse working inside Canada’s healthcare system, and her analysis of how these policies infantilize Indigenous people while putting patient care at risk.
If you want to understand how far the ideology of “decolonization” has spread into nursing—and why that should worry anyone who cares about science, medicine, and health outcomes—you won’t want to miss this conversation.
