We're live tweeting today from @CATSINaM #BackToTheFire conference on Gadigal land in New South Wales: here's the link to all our stories to date croakey.org/category/croak… 
Participants are logging in to join @CATSINaM #BackToTheFire conference, with @WestRoianne set to deliver keynotes in the opening sessions.
Welcome to Country at @CATSINaM #BackToTheFire from Rowena Welsh, Gumbayngirr & Dharawhal woman, on behalf of Metro Land Council of Sydney, on Gadigan lands
Rowena Welsh acknowledges all the Traditional Owners of the lands from which online participants are joining for @CATSINaM #BackToTheFire
. @WestRoianne welcomes Auntie Dulcie Flower and other foundational members of Redfern Medical Service and @CATSINaM - sad that can't all gather on Gadigal lands in person, but looking forward to big gatherings next year, the 25th anniversary of CATSINaM
In November 2022, Australia's first national Indigenous health workforce conference to be held in Brisbane, bringing together @CATSINaM @IAHA_National @AIDAAustralia, announces @WestRoianne #BackToTheFire
We are now sharing a Moment of Silence at @CATSINaM #BackToTheFire - to honour foundational members and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives who have passed, also those community members who have lost lives to COVID
. @WestRoianne urges people to read In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses’ Stories: a very brave and raw sharing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses' stories catsinam.org.au/2021/02/in-our… #BackToTheFire
Aunty Dulcie Flower talks about the founding of (and critical need for) @CATSINaM and the recognition of so much nursing/health capability in community. Was need for support in the face of racism not only from health admin, but colleagues and patients #BackToTheFire
Aunty Dulcie Flower talks of early @CATSINaM work: participated in longitudinal study into health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, then on breast cancer (helping distribute funds to community groups of women who survived cancer surgery) #BackToTheFire
Significant work still needed on strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce - 30pc gap on completion rates, says @WestRoianne, urging ongoing focus on the Getting Em and Keeping Em report catsinam.org.au/getting-em-and… cc @anmf_federal @LowitjaInstitut #BackToTheFire
Three of @CATSINaM's foundational members are at today's #BackToTheFire conference on Gadigal lands - Aunty Dulcie Flower, Aunty Lynda Holden, Aunty Kerry Doyle catsinam.org.au/founders/
Hearing @WestRoianne's background in health - you can read a Q&A here that she did with @LowitjaInstitut after winning their 2020 Outstanding Researcher award - is now @CATSINaM's fourth CEO #BackToTheFire lowitja.org.au/page/research/…
. @WestRoianne talking about important @CATSINaM campaigns, including supporting @LynoreGeia's important Black Lives Matter call to action #BackToTheFire jcu.edu.au/news/releases/…
@WestRoianne @CATSINaM @LynoreGeia "Indigenous Knowledge in Nursing and Midwifery is only possible through Indigenous Nurses and Midwives." Still only 1.3 pc of nursing/midwifery workforce - not only below parity, but critical to boost if serious about addressing inequity @WestRoianne #BackToTheFire
. @WestRoianne says she was heartened that recent @acn_tweet #NNF2021 conference highlighted, among challenges to nursing of COVID, bushfires, floods in recent years, was need to respond on #BlackLivesMatter #BackToTheFire
Timeline on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing (@WestRoianne notes it begins before colonisation) - certainly needs to be a major disruption of the way we've been doing things, particularly for workforce parity, she says #BackToTheFire
Need Indigenous and non-Indigenous nursing leaders to walk alongside each other, says @WestRoianne doing a shout out to non-Indigenous allies she has worked with, including at @CRANAplus #BackToTheFire
Common misunderstanding that Aboriginal health and cultural safety are the same thing, says @WestRoianne, recalling the work of Maori nurse Irihapeti Ramsden who asked: "we talk about legal, ethical, clinical safety, what about cultural safety?" #BackToTheFire
Has been important shift from Cultural Awareness to Cultural Safety in health care, says @WestRoianne -- need for non-Indigenous people to ask what colonial factors have impacted on their beliefs, values, assumptions and therefore on the health care they provide #BackToTheFire
Important work done on @Ahpra National Scheme's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Strategy ahpra.gov.au/About-Ahpra/Ab… #BackToTheFire
Hearing about the strong work of the Muliyan collective - its focus on eliminating racism #BackToTheFire catsinam.org.au/muliyan-who-we…
"For me research is an act of resistance". We're watching this video on the Muliyan collective on racism in health care/health education, need to "privilege our sovereignty" - don't miss it #BackToTheFire
"COVID has shown us the importance of our professions, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing and midwives have been exercising their knowledges over tens of thousands of years" Muliyan
So many have talked about the crisis in Indigenous health - non-Indigenous nursing and midwifery professions have opportunity to really take action as allies, says @WestRoianne #BackToTheFire
“Taking our blindfolds off”: acknowledging the vision of First Nations peoples for nursing and midwifery #BackToTheFire ajan.com.au/index.php/AJAN…
Binan Goonj, 3rd Edition: Bridging cultures in Aboriginal health (among many great resources being shared here at @CATSINaM #BackToTheFire conference) elsevier.com/books/binan-go…
"No, it's this way or the highway," Aunty Lynda Holden on the struggle for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander nurses/midwives to be heard on care for community. "We do need our own courses, we do need our own universities. It's about time we demanded change." #BackToTheFire
Reminder that the reason @CATSINaM was established was because of racism in the health sector: @WestRoianne acknowledges the ongoing reminders on purpose from founding members like Aunty Lynda Holden #BackToTheFire
Now set to hear from @CATSINaM's Dr Karen Martin, proud Noonuccal woman - author of 'Please knock before you enter' researchonline.jcu.edu.au/4745/1/01Exten… #BackToTheFire
Karen Martin is leading the Murra Mulanggari: Cultural Safety E-Learning Training that @CATSINaM will be launching in #CloseTheGap week in 2022
Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: a literature review and recommended definition - #BackToTheFire participants/watchers urged to read the seminal work of Dr Irihapeti Ramsden croakey.org/wp-content/upl…
Karen Martin warns that many people "cherry picking" Dr Ramsden's work on cultural safety - critical point: "it's about the nurse, not about the patient" #BackToTheFire
If you change the name, you change the concept - go back to Dr Ramsden's work to be sure, says Dr Martin - "If misunderstandings swirl like a tsunami, people are going to be misinformed, not change their practice/ideas, back to where started". #BackToTheFire
The power and gift of cultural safety can mobilise, says Dr Martin, who says capitalisation counts for a lot! #BackToTheFire
"Ramsden never referred to her work as "Maori cultural safety", and we should not refer to 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural safety' - means 3pc are carrying the workload for the 97pc, talk about a good way to keep us unwell," says Dr Martin #BackToTheFire
"But on our terms!" Dr Martin on the responsibility of non-Indigenous people on Cultural Safety, which is not a stepwise progression but a lifelong journey, interweaving professional/personal #BackToTheFire
Power is at the heart of Cultural Safety: the analysis of power vs the customs of any one group. When you begin to understand your access to power, is imbued in health systems and in the cultural of nursing/midwifery .. "you've got to grab it by the horns!" #BackToTheFire
20 years ago from Dr Irihapeti Ramsden #BackToTheFire
Aunty Lynda Holden: "We need to understand that power is based on their own knowledge/understanding of others.Tackling power is changing the information at the top of what happened in the colonisation of Aust, understanding their power comes from the law that they operate under."
Aunty Lynda Holden: "We are still under colonisation laws. We try to say 'how do I change the power?' For me it's always been about changing power at the top." #BackToTheFire
"I have yet to meet a Dean, besides @WestRoianne, who wants to change the system, who wants to say 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people....like things done a different way, so why don't we have something that addresses their needs?'" Aunty Lynda Holden #BackToTheFire
Cleansing, rejuvenating, revitalising - the fire of change, says Dr Karen Martin #BackToTheFire
We're set to take a break: resuming with Professor Juanita Sherwood #BackToTheFire (will begin a new thread)
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