nursingforsocialjustice

Shift report (sometimes referred to as Shift Handover) is an important part of the day to day workflow of an inpatient health unit. Unique to mental health inpatient areas is the team-based aspect of shift report. Most patients admitted to mental health inpatient programs are ambulatory, most units are designed…

I ask because conceptually the boundary between medical care and health care and things that support health of people is murky. When I read research written by physicians the default framework is medicine but…is that so simply because of the discipline of the person authoring it? Or is more explanation…

A disease and a disease process are terms used to describe physiological things that happens in one’s body. Illness is a subjective experience. The world is nursing is about subjective illness experiences. We care about disease processes as they live in people but the world of nursing does not end…

The sun is coming up. I just watered the lawn. I scrolled through my Instagram feed and thought, well this is curious, that I spend so much time on catching up on my social media every morning; I have built it into my routine. In some ways, my morning catch-up…

The world ebbs and flows, like water flows. I think it is integral that we collectively reflect on our positions of privilege or not having privilege. I think it is important to reflect on the privilege of having the time and space to reflect. The ability to have choice, and…

Not many things keep me up at night. Lately, the anxiety I feel about not knowing the next move in my nursing career has kept me away from serene nighttime slumber. Mid-Life Crisis? I turn 40 this year. My almost 11 year old daughter asked me then other day if…

Sometimes I wake up in the morning (before my little kids wake up and barge in asking if they can watch a show on Netflix) thinking about work. I think that this has been happening more and more lately, perhaps because I have again returned to school (and by again…

The past year has been different than the other 38 years of my life in terms of how small my immediate circle of people that am in contact with has become. Being a nurse during a pandemic is something that, strangely I feel like I have been preparing for my…

I am a nurse. I have been a Registered Nurse for the past 13 years. I love being a nurse. I have had many great opportunities for to work with all kinds of people and provide direct care for all sorts in all sorts of settings. For most of my…

So much of our lives are dictated by capitalism. Our life worth is deeply influenced by ideas of work and productivity that has a monetary value. It seems deeply flawed that ideas of productivity driven by amassing monetary wealth are how we measure how well we are doing. It seems…