nursingforsocialjustice

I have been a nurse for 13 years. In the 13 years of my career I have seen notable shifts in public awareness of mental health issues, shifts in policy related to substance use. I have seen must less shifts in the way that health clinicians approach issues of mental…

I recent weeks I have been thinking more about the difference between the profession of nursing and it encompasses and the the discipline of nursing. One relates to the other but they are distinct. I have been thinking more about how disciplines like archeology, geology, perhaps even psychology have those…

What is progress? Are we in a never ending pursuit of a better us? A better we? What does that even mean? I have many existential crises each week. The emotional moments of questioning the purpose of my life are more numerous and closer together today than they were when…

There are three part of registered nursing in Canada: the regulator, the association and the union. There was a time when all three were part of one nursing organization. In British Columbia the Labour part separated and become the nurses union in 1981. Almost 30 years later the association arm…

The world is beautiful, if we want it to be. The little moments, the big moments, the things we relish in, the things that break our hearts; life is all of it. We cannot go around it. We must go through it. This glorious thing we call life is sometimes…

The other day my daughter asked me why things have to cost money. Why does our world have to revolve around trade of goods and services for money? Does it make us better people? Does it make anything better, or do we just take for granted that that’s how the…

It’s hard to be open to new things. It’s hard to be open to change when the world seems so bleak and stuck in the same patterns of mistakes. It can feel so lonely sometimes, even though we know we are living in a world with billions of people, even…

Doing a PhD is super hard. It is not a beautiful collective experience of scholarly achievement and learning research. It’s a strange road of competition and self-doubt, peppered with hoops to jump through to validate how smart you are. It’s so hard to motivate myself to charge forward with this.…

Everyday feels the same, but that’s only because I don’t have the same memories to use as cognitive markers to differentiate between the pieces of the year that I usually hang significant events on. My family and I never went on a summer vacation, we didn’t go back to where…