Western Australia's @CATSINaM #BackToTheFire event is now set to begin - we'll be livetweeting the conversations and reporting later. 
#BackToTheFire discussions being led by @WestRoianne of the Kalkadoon Djkunde Peoples joining from Country in north west Queensland
#BackToTheFire Welcome to Country on behalf of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation from Aunty Jane Jones, a @CATSINaM Founding Member, Hall of Fame Award winner, founding member of the Elders Circle catsinam.org.au/elders-circle/
. @WestRoianne talking about how @CATSINaM had launched this national conference series to be able to listen to the experiences of members across Australia - but COVID intervened of course.....#BackToTheFire
#BackToTheFire replays message from Aunty Matilda House, who gifted a coolamon, safe passage and permission to work in a beautiful ceremony (you can watch here catsinam.org.au) that launched this @CATSINaM series
We're watching a snippet of the first @CATSINaM #BackToTheFire conference held on Yirrganydji and Yidinji Country in Cairns - you can watch it here
Uncle Henry Fourmile #BackToTheFire
Culture is central to #BackToTheFire conference series, which has privileged language and knowledges.....here @WestRoianne (and granddaughter) with @RichardFejo for the Welcome to Country on Larrakia land
"We should have a lot more nurses....how do we 'get them in and keep them in'" #BackToTheFire
"We are masters of our own world...it is not easy, it takes a lot of hard work. And I can do that." #BackToTheFire
Then on to Kaurna Country #BackToTheFire
#BackToTheFire onto the colder climes nipaluna/Hobart lutruwita/Tasmania/
#BackToTheFire story nipaluna/Hobart lutruwita/Tasmania/ croakey.org/back-to-the-fi…
Final #BackToTheFire conference in person, on Naarm, before the lockdowns really set in
(and the Croakey story croakey.org/back-to-the-fi…)
(and the Croakey story croakey.org/back-to-the-fi…)
We've shared 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
#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 welcomes @strictlykaren at #BackToTheFire Chair Council of Deans and Midwifery. Executive Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery @EdithCowanUni
Watch this space, @WestRoianne tells @CATSINaM members as the org works on its strategic plan #BackToTheFire
January 2022, new 'Getting Em and Keeping Em' evaluation report - the recs from 2002 were very operational, the new recs v much about systemic and structural change in nursing and midwifery, says @WestRoianne catsinam.org.au/getting-em-and…
Still a long way to go to strengthen the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing/midwife workforce - only 1.1 per cent of total workforce, parity would be 3 per cent, says @WestRoianne #BackToTheFire
"We want the document sitting broader than @CATSINaM at the national level (including in the focus of Alison McMillan, Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer) but be driven by @CATSINaM". @WestRoianne on Getting Em and Keeping Em evaluation #BackTotheFire
Important now have practice standards/codes of conduct, but @CATSINaM offering Murra Mullangari Cultural Safety training to ensure nurses and midwives can meet them - "very rigorous piece of work" to be released #CloseTheGap week 2020: @WestRoianne cc @anmjaustralia @acn_tweet
Shoutout at #BackToTheFire also from @WestRoianne for this important work: In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses’ Stories catsinam.org.au/2021/02/in-our…
Snapshot for WA nursing/midwifery workforce - real shortfall in numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives - "looks like more work needs to be done," says Aunty Jane Jones #BackToTheFire
Next up at #BackToTheFire a (recorded) address from Arrernte/Gudanji woman Pat Turner, CEO @NACCHOAustralia @coalition_peaks
Pat Turner believes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people/health professionals are on precipice of a national reform agenda in Australia. "Together we are changing the way Australian Governments work with our people." #BackToTheFire @NACCHOAustralia
Pat Turner talking about the historic work of the @coalition_peaks (@CATSINaM a member) on bringing about the National Agreement on #ClosingTheGap closingthegap.gov.au/national-agree… #BackToTheFire
Pat Turner acknowledges the work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses/midwives to meet #ClosingTheGap targets, including on birth weights #BackToTheFire pc.gov.au/closing-the-ga…
"ACCHOs came into being because of the inability of mainstream organisations/services to engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people...ACCHOs are more than health services, they put Aboriginal health in Aboriginal hands." Pat Turner #BackToTheFire
"There is a clear preference from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to access community controlled services.... They will bypass mainstream services for the cultural safety they can find in ACCHOs." Pat Turner #BackToTheFire
Pat Turner acknowledges challenges faced by Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander nurses/midwives: "cultural isolation, cultural load and a lack of cultural safety in some settings due to racism....We all need to keep working to create and sustain structural change". #BackToTheFire
. @WestRoianne highlights the Australian Nurse Family Partnership program - "beautiful model" with @CATSINaM @NACCHOAustralia as key stakeholders anfpp.com.au #BackToTheFire
First we're watching the presentation @LynoreGeia delivered at #BackToTheFire's event on Yirrganydji and Yidinji Country in Cairns: A unified call to action from Australian Nursing and Midwifery leaders: ensuring that Black Lives Matter tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
"Let's take a minute to listen deeply to the heart of a Black nation that is crying out for justice." @LynoreGeia #BackToTheFire
Time for Australian nursing/midwifery to examine the deeper issues, now have strong frameworks, strong enough to not fall down when they are shaken, but so that those things that should not be there anymore fall out. @LynoreGeia #BackToTheFire
. @LynoreGeia talks about how nurses through Australian history acted as the voice of the government authority, exerted oppressive control over Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including mothers and babies. She saw it for her mother on Palm Island #BackToTheFire
It is the responsibility of every nurse and midwife to "recognise, confront and challenge racism", to practice safe care, to deeply reflect on the culture of the profession @LynoreGeia #BackToTheFire
What is our philosophy of care in nursing for Aust's First Peoples? asks @LynoreGeia. Do we have one? Do we need one? Our practice needs to be founded on deep commitment to humanity and love, grounded in social justice, health equity, respect, dignity & healing. #BackToThefire
Dismantling the structures of racism requires the head and the heart, says @LynoreGeia #BackToTheFire. It requires knowledge, strength and humility, a deep measure of grace "for us and for others", self-love.
"We need to make those spaces so we can hold each other and heal," says @LynoreGeia of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives, urging them to know that #BlackLivesMatter #BackToTheFire
"We need to flip the narrative, bring the stories of strength, survival and sovereignty." @LynoreGeia #BackToTheFire.
"We need to heal our profession. Indigenous knowledge has to inform curriculum development & knowledge translation. Cultural Safety is not a threat, it is a living model for healing on both sides." @LynoreGeia #BackToTheFire
Powerful words from @LynoreGeia on the need/responsibility for non-Indigenous nurses and midwives to dismantle the structures of racism and work on healing #BackToTheFuture @acn_tweet @anmjaustralia
In response, @strictlykaren says she will ensure Council of Deans new Strategic Plan does address the unified call from @LynoreGeia on #BlackLivesMatter, also the Getting Em and Keeping Em report, and increasing Indigenous faculty/Dean numbers #BackToTheFire
Hearing the personal daily racism experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses/midwives on the wards....#BackToTheFire
"My heart is really sore that you have those experiences still," says @LynoreGeia in response to story of racism experienced from patients and colleagues by a #BackToTheFire nurse. Says hopes @strictlykaren has heard..."2021 in Australia, we shouldn't have this."
"Cultural safety is not a threat, it is anti-racism work and can be deep healing work for Australian nursing, if we embrace it with our head and heart. I ponder the question, what does this look like for Australian Nursing?" @LynoreGeia #BackToTheFire
"This deep work of reform can only be done through our collegial care for each other. We need to make a safe space to discuss the tension and transformations in the work of reform, to build a stronger unified Australian nursing." @LynoreGeia #BackToTheFire
"Indigenous knowledge and western knowledge can work together in respectful relationship. We are powerful in our identity in our practice." @LynoreGeia #BackToTheFire
"Cultural Safety is concerned with the transfer of power from service providers to health care consumers, addressing issues of power imbalance. The importance of…the need to examine dominant power structures
and how they impact on health…” @WestRoianne quotes Irihapeti Ramsden
and how they impact on health…” @WestRoianne quotes Irihapeti Ramsden
Hearing now from Adam Burdekin, from Marr Mooditj - health training for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students only #BackToTheFire - he feels "surrounded by culture".
"I hadn't (in previous places) been able to call other students family, but here everyone is family. Makes us as students feel safe and supported." Adam Burdekin, on studying with Marr Mooditj #BackToTheFire
Adam is one of only 454 male First Nation nurses with 38,997 Non-First Nation male nurses (thanks @LeeonaWest!) #BackToTheFire
Asked what message would he give to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boys and men thinking about nursing: "Go for it". #BackToTheFuture
Here's a video about Marr Mooditj #BackToTheFire
#BackToTheFire now taking a break, back in an hour.....
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