Publications, resources & updates

Updates, reports & publications

As part of our commitment to addressing and ending Indigenous-specific racism in health care, we report regularly on our progress on this work. We invite you to review the below reports. These reports describe our efforts to enact the recommendations put forth in the In Plan Sight report and lay out a roadmap for BCCNM to follow as we work to make the health-care system culturally safe.

New! Redressing Harm to Indigenous Peoples in the Health-care System: Relational Accountability in Action

We are pleased to share our updated action plan.

This year's plan builds on the foundation laid in our 2023–2024 action plan and reaffirms our commitment to addressing, disrupting, and dismantling Indigenous-specific racism within the health regulatory system.

This year, we're focused on the principle of Relational Accountability within our work. This means moving beyond simply acknowledging past wrongs; it's about building genuine, ongoing relationships with Indigenous people and communities, and being responsible to those relationships. It requires us to be accountable to Indigenous Peoples, ensuring their voices, preferences and needs guide our actions, and that we are responsive to feedback on our work and actions and we report back in a transparent and accountable way.

We are also honoured to share that in 2024, Siem Te'ta-in, Sound of Thunder, HDOL, Coast Salish Knowledge Keeper, Honorary Doctorate of Original Laws, gifted BCCNM with a basket filled with traditional slaxin (medicine) and meaningful objects to help support the work of the college. We have published a new section on our website that showcases a series of short videos, featuring Siem Te’ta-in, offering deeper insights into the artistry of the basket and the significance of the Indigenous medicines contained within it.

We invite you to read the plan and share your thoughts, questions or feedback with us at culturalsafety@bccnm.ca

Redressing Harm to Indigenous Peoples in the Health-care System

BCCNM's work 2023-present

In Spring 2023, we published our roadmap and commitments for the coming years in the Redressing Harm report. We have since provided three progress reports on these activities.

Redressing Harm to Indigenous Peoples in the Health-care System: Relational Accountability in Action. Published in September 2025
BCCNM's Commitment to Action: 2023–24 Redressing Harm to Indigenous Peoples in the Health-care System. Published April 2023.
Six-month progress update on the Redressing Harm plan. Published September 2023.
2024 progress update on the Redressing Harm plan. Published September 2024.

Constructive disruption

BCCNM's work 2021-2023

Constructive disruption to Indigenous-specific racism amongst B.C. Nurses and Midwives. Published September 2021.
One-year progress update: Constructive Disruption. Published September 2022.

Complaints process review

BCCNM in 2022

The college commissioned a review of its complaints process to make it safer for Indigenous Peoples.

Final report: Looking Back to Look Forward. Finalized December 2022, published April 2023.

Practice standard for nurses and midwives

Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility, and Anti-Racism practice standard

This practice standard was developed in collaboration with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (CPSBC). It came into effect Feb. 25, 2022.

Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility, and Anti-Racism practice standard
Companion Guide
Survey results: registrant feedback on standard

Video series — co-produced with CPSBC.

How we engage

Elders and Knowledge Keepers are very important members of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities, and have invaluable knowledge to share with BCCNM. We're pleased to share our guidelines for this work.