nursingforsocialjustice

None of this is permanent, not me, not you, not the words on this screen. None of this. That doesn’t mean that our decisions and actions do not matter. You matter. On the contrary, these relationships that we have are what makes any of this matter. The impermanence of it…

Here’s my ethical crisis for today: Yesterday I attended a virtual discussion panel on discrimination in healthcare. My thoughts throughout this conference: the entire system that we call psychiatry is based on American Psychological Association (APA) standards of what is normal. And, within this we really have to understand who…

Have you ever listened to Micheal Stone? I took a three day course he taught on mindfulness in 2017, very shortly before he died. There are moments in your life and experiences they you have they you can look back at and think, that changed my life. Those three days…

Does everything get commodified? It’s strange sometimes, how something like a journey of self-discovery intended to contribute to the greater good can turn into a journey of self-indulgence and self-promotion. Academia feels f-ed up sometimes. Do you ever feel like you get a bit too caught up in a metaphorical…

We knew what we were doing. We knew it was wrong. We kept going anyway. You know what’s messed up? Thinking that the mere presence of BIPOC people in a workplace signifies the transcendence of racism. The end. Michell D.

Sometimes I wonder, am I perpetuating a problem when am I trying to solve it? Not long ago a nurse colleague asked me, “what is a nursing model without a medical model”? And so goes this idea that nursing cannot exist without medicine. We can get real deep and philosophical…

Have you ever read something and wondered what the actual motivation of the author(s) was? I will contextualize this for you. Right now I am preparing to write my comprehensive exams. The preparation involves a lot of reading and a lot of writing. I read an article today that was…

The stories of nursing and medicine are intertwined but I don’t think it’s a romance. The story is more like a struggle, it’s a story of oppression but it’s also a story of empowerment. It’s an underdog story. Nursing is waiting to bust out of the gates like a wild…

Here is something that I struggle with everyday: I did my BSN in Calgary, Alberta. I started my program in 2006. When I did my first mental health inpatient rotation in 2007, my placement was on an acute inpatient psychiatric (the terminology of the time) unit. The main unit doors…

Life happens as a series of simultaneous experiences for everyone over time. It’s amazing if you think about it. So many things are happening in this moment. And this moment. And this moment. The experiences of some are close to us, the experiences of others are much farther away. Some…