nursingforsocialjustice

Stories of women. Stories of people.

Sharing stories.

Why don’t we share the stories of how we arrived to where we are? Are they secrets? Are they insignificant?

We say we want to know stories of patients. I want to know the stories of my peers, my colleagues. I don’t want to know you as social worker or psychiatrist and I don’t want you to know me as nurse (staff person? I don’t even know how many times a co-staff who I worked with for what I considered a while didn’t even know my role on the team), I want you to know how I got here and why I show up everyday.

I work in healthcare. In healthcare it is important to understanding what our values are and how they fit, not just with organizational values, but with the values of the people we work with. How do our personal values fit with grand missions and visions? How do we revisit this in a deliberate way? I think we need to revisit this at regular intervals in a deliberate way. We need to talk to each other about more than what we did on the weekend. We certainly need to talk to each other about more than what we are doing at work today. Relational practice isn’t something that only happens between clinicians and patients.

Love,

Michelle D.