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Roianne West Quotes

Australia

Roianne West is an Australian Indigenous health scholar, nurse academic, and leader. She is a Kalkadunga and Djukunde woman from Queensland.

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My commitment to increasing Indigenous people coming through nursing is me paying it forward because had that not happened, God knows where I would be.

We really need to start looking at dealing with racism within nursing and midwifery and within the care that we deliver.

Nursing was not only an opportunity for a better life, it was a lifeline.

My career in health very much started at a grassroots level, with some strong Eldership and mentorship from the community and my mum.

I’ve been very deliberate about that in my career; identifying what skills and qualifications I needed in order to be listened to and be able to have more impact for my people.

When you get cultural safety right, it actually works as a very good retention strategy for Indigenous students in health programs because it validates the reasons why they actually come into a program.

A lot of my work in the very beginning was focused on curriculum development and design and building the capacity of non-Indigenous academics to better teach this type of content.

Undertaking a PhD is a privilege and an honour and doing it that way I did didn’t allow for me to appreciate that nor the learning that comes with a PhD.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roianne West (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.