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To present the current evidence on the nature and principles of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Nursing Education Institutions (NEIs).
Five databases (CINAHL, Medline, Scopus, ERIC and Educational Research Complete) and websites of Canadian nursing education institutions were searched for studies and grey literature on EDI. Information was analysed using the Diversio Diversity and Inclusion Survey (DDIS) framework to highlight the nature and principles of EDI in NEIs. A content analysis guided by a deductive approach informed the data synthesis.
Eighty-eight studies (90 papers) published between 1999 and 2025 were included from 1301 identified articles in the database search. The websites of seven nursing institutions in Alberta, Canada, were examined. The review revealed facilitators, barriers and gaps. The results illustrated the presence and need for diversity, inclusion, equal opportunity and fairness, employing the DDIS framework across participant groups, curricula and contexts.
The literature on EDI in NEI is diverse and provides many facilitators, barriers, challenges and gaps. This review reveals the need for intervention and review studies to highlight specific practices that can lead to successful EDI implementation in NEIs.
These results show that further research is required to refine the definition of EDI within the nursing academy. Evidence must be advanced to develop nursing theories, frameworks and methods specific to EDI implementation.
Promoting EDI is a vital goal for the nursing profession, and there is a need to understand how EDI behaves in NEIs. This review revealed facilitators, challenges, barriers, gaps and principles of EDI that exist within NEI in the literature. This data can support policy and practice change within NEIs and promote EDI within those organisations.
The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) checklist was adhered to in this review.
This study did not include patient or public involvement in its design, conduct, or reporting.
To analyse the relationship between authentic nursing leadership and safety climates across hospital settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authentic nursing leadership shapes the safety climate by fostering positive perceptions of workplace policies, processes, procedures and practices that influence how safety is prioritised and addressed within an organisation.
A cross-sectional study.
Our study was conducted from December 2021 to December 2022 in six Brazilian hospitals. Participants were nursing staff working in General Medicine Units, Intensive Care Units (ICU) and Emergency Departments (ED) who provided care to patients with COVID-19. The Authentic Leadership Questionnaire and the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire were used to measure nursing staff perceptions of authentic leadership and safety climates. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
391 nursing staff across six hospitals participated. Self-awareness significantly enhanced perceptions of the safety climates. Additionally, being a Registered Nurse and working in the ICU were positively associated with achieving safe climates in the working environment. In contrast, working in EDs was significantly negatively related to safety climates.
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored a lack of authentic nursing leadership and unsafe climates. Therefore, it is critical to implement educational strategies that foster authentic leadership, particularly focusing on self-awareness, to promote more positive safety climates. Ensuring that leadership and safety climates are relationship-focused is critical to enhancing patient outcomes.
Nursing staff's perceptions of authentic leadership and safety climates are important in making more informed decisions about patient management.
Since self-awareness increases positive perceptions of safety climates, nursing staff should exercise it to guide their actions in facing future health crises.
STROBE guidelines.
Higher self-awareness in relationships with others is a predictor of safety climates and can lead to enhanced patient outcomes.
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