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Whiteness in Nursing Education: An Invitation to Understanding and Transformation

Dates

March 2, 2026 - March 30, 2026

Event Description

While the population of Canada is culturally and racially diverse, nursing education remains a place of white cultural dominance (Bell, 2020). Many nursing educators are white and unknowingly uphold an educational system that socializes nursing students through a white lens (Hantke, 2022). However, the whiteness of nursing is not simply about a category of skin colour, it is the assumptions and discourses that shape nursing, and the ways power is distributed and held (Jackson, 2023).

The nursing profession is also stratified along racial lines with more white people occupying valued clinical and leadership positions in healthcare and educational settings (Bell, 2020). This normalized dominance gives white nurses the privilege of maintaining racial ignorance and reproducing and protecting white supremacy and white privilege (Bell, 2020; Van Herk et al., 2011).

Faculty development programs and curricula often fail to address these problematic ways of being, but instead uncritically reproduce dominant norms such as whiteness, heteronormativity, and classism (Blanchet Garneau et al., 2018; Van Herk et al., 2011). Many nurse educators want to interrogate whiteness in nursing education but don’t know how. Bell (2020) suggests centering whiteness as a location for critical intervention, where making whiteness strange can contribute to improved race consciousness and anti-racist skill development.

Event Schedule:

Weekly - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm EST/EDT

Delivery

Online

Cost

Member: $255
Non-member: $300

Questions

For more information or if you have any questions please contact Keith Beriault, via email kberiault@casn.ca

Methods of Payment

CASN accepts Visa and Mastercard.

Refund and Cancellation Policy

Cancellations

  • Registrations that are cancelled up to one week before the start of the course will be refunded minus a $50 administrative fee.
  • Registrations that are cancelled with less than one week’s notice will not be refunded, though the participant will have the option to defer the cost of the course to apply to another CNEI/CASN course.
  • There will be no refunds issued once the course begins.
  • CASN reserves the right to cancel this course if it does not meet minimal group requirements.

Course Content

  • Participants are responsible for access to any course materials, including articles and textbooks.
  • There will be no make-up assignments accepted.
  • Assignments will not be re-marked.
  • Late submissions will not be accepted, unless under exceptional circumstances.

Attendance

  • Attendance is mandatory for all sessions, barring exceptional circumstances, unless otherwise noted in the course syllabus.

Accommodations

  • If a participant requires special accommodation, they must notify the instructor(s) and CASN coordinator prior to the start of the course. Accommodations for physical or mental health reasons must be confirmed by a health professional.

Please see our complete academic policies online at https://cnei-icie.casn.ca/about/cnei-policies/.


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Registration Fees

Member: $255
Non-member : $300

Questions

For more information or if you have any questions please contact Keith Beriault, via email kberiault@casn.ca

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