nursingforsocialjustice

I cannot tell yet, if the celebrity postings on Instagram are projects in instilling mass hope, empathy and solidarity, or if they are projects in self-indulgence (I include myself in this reflection). I suppose, after this is all over and I look back on it, I will be able to…

Living through this pandemic is something that will deeply impact my life, and the lives of my children. We have been distancing in our home for almost 2 weeks. Tomorrow, my three older children will remain home on an indefinite break from school, my youngest will remain home on an…

There is value to seeing a world beyond yourself. I think the fact that many people didn’t see the interconnection between themselves and the world is how we got to where we are right now. I don’t think a lot of people understand the magnitude of what is happening globally…

Here we are, living through a pandemic of a caliber I supposed I knew I would see because my community health nursing professors at the University of Calgary, Dr Candice Lind and Alliyah Dosani in 2007 made it part of the course content. What happens now that we are all…

Last August I attended a nursing philosophy conference. One of the speakers was PhD student from UVic. Their background was public health. They were talking about the importance of public health nursing, and the erosion of public health funding because of difficult to assess outcomes like prevention of disease spread.…

What is the difference between an unanticipated and an unintended consequence? Why does understanding this difference matter? Why are we such black and white thinkers? And, why is it so hard to see the forest for the trees? What is the nurses role in the issue of climate change, the…

Do we all sometimes get sucked into collective cognitive distortions? Or get fully on a bandwagon when we are not entirely sure where the wagon is going or who is driving g it? Sometimes we see the world as black and white and forget that there are many shades of…

2019 came and went. I feel like I blinked and Christmas was over. So here we are, together, in a new decade. Isn’t it strange that we have these chronological frameworks to help us divide before into digestible pieces, and plan after? What wisdom will come in the future? And,…

A colleague (and friend) and I starting making a podcast. Take a listen: https://soundcloud.com/user-378491431/the-shift-change-podcast-episode-2-bullying-in-nursing/s-6fj73 Let me know if you want to be a guest or if you have any ideas for future discussions! Peace! Michelle D.

I went to an all day workshop on “dealing with difficult people” a few years ago. Something that the speaker said that day deeply changed my perspective on what it means to be relational and do relational practice. The speaker said that there was no pre-requisite to gaining their respect,…