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ArticleNursing inquiry2022

Centering Black feminist thought in nursing praxis.

Ismalia De Sousa, Colleen Varcoe

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Article in Nursing inquiry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. The Generativity of Variability for Evidence-Based Practice.Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals · 2026
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  6. Liquid Perception and Event and Nursing.Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals · 2026
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  7. Social Justice in Nursing: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis.Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals · 2025
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  8. The Relations Between Nursing and Philosophy … Some Wonderings.Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals · 2025
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  10. Institutions of Care: A Qualitative Study with Ancestral Black Nova Scotian Nurses in Healthcare.The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres · 2025
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  11. What Got Us Here Won't Get Us There: Critical History in Radical Black Re-imaginations of Canadian Nursing Histories.The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ismalia De SousaSchool of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4919-1181
Colleen VarcoeSchool of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9090-2793
University of British Columbia · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Femininity and whiteness dominate Western nursing, silencing ontologies and epistemologies that do not align with these dominant norms while perpetuating systemic racism and discrimination in nursing practice, education, research, nursing activism, and sociopolitical structures. We propose Black feminist thought as a praxis to decenter, deconstruct, and unseat these ideologies and systems of power. Drawing from the work of past and present Black feminist scholars, we examine the ontological and epistemological perspectives of Black feminist thought. These include (i) the uniqueness and particular experiences of people, (ii) the acceptance of ontological and epistemological pluralism of truths and ways of knowing, and (iii) the mandate for equity in the health, social, political, and environmental structures of society. By focusing our attention on lived experiences and voices of those systematically excluded in nursing practice, education, research, and society, Black feminist thought offers an anticolonial, antiracist, and antidiscriminatory foundation for more effectively upholding nursing's disciplinary mandate for social justice and equity.

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FeminismSocial JusticeCultural DiversityFemaleHumansKnowledgeBlackBlack feminist thoughtdiscriminationfeminismintersectionalitynursingracismsocial justice

Identifiers

PMID34820943
PMCPMC9286449
OpenAlexW3215328595

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