Winograd Visiting Professor Public Presentation

Courageous Career: Kill the Indian, Save the Child 

Thursday, November 14, 2024

 4:30-5:30 PM

College of Nursing & Public Health Excellence Building, Room 2601

or Via Zoom

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Margaret P. Moss, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN, is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation (Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota) and has equal lineage in a Canadian Dakota Nation, Saskatchewan. She has been a nurse for 31 years and is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Moss is the first and only American Indian to hold both nursing and juris doctorates. She has been in academia for 20 years. She is currently at the University of Minnesota as associate dean for Nursing and Health Policy and in the Faculty of Applied Science as a professor in the School of Nursing. She has also been on faculty at the University at Buffalo and Yale University. Dr. Moss was a 2014 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Aboriginal/Indigenous Life and Culture in the North American Context at McGill University, Montreal, QC (2014). As an RWJF Health Policy Fellow, she staffed the US Senate Special Committee on Aging (2008-9) and was original lead staff on the now enacted National Alzheimer’s Project Act. Moss has published the first nursing textbook on American Indian health (Springer 2015), which won AJN Book of the Year in two categories (2016). Her next text, Health Equity and Nursing (Springer), released March 2020. She has given over 150 presentations on these topics, especially in and about the four settler states: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and across the US.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will describe the makeup of Registered Nurses and the larger population, and that of New Mexico, vis-a-vis American Indians/Alaska Natives, and why it matters.
2. Participants will understand what impacts the American Indian and the future of nursing, by understanding the past through one narrative story.
3. Participants will apply the learnings around decolonization, indigenization and reconciliation whether in the profession, policy, education or industry.

Disclosure Statement

The following planners and faculty listed have disclosed that they do not have a relevant financial relationship with a commercial interest: Margaret P. Moss, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN and Christine Cogil, DNP, MPS, RN, FNP-BC, FAANP

Accreditation Statement

The University of New Mexico School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of New Mexico School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.