nursingforsocialjustice

Recently, when I was instructing a clinical group of undergraduate nursing students I was asked a question about how the scope of practice of LPNs effects the work of RNs. We talked about how the scope of practice of LPNs today is different than it was ten years ago. They…

Have you ever experienced going about your day, being caught up in the hullabaloo, so focused on the tasks at hand, when you hear a song on the radio or in the background of a movie or television show. Suddenly everything that you were so caught up in falls away,…

What if more time was spent both in the education of nurses, in new graduate programs and in every nurse orientation where a nurse is new to an organization on being a successful member of an organization. Sometimes I feel like there is so much focus on individual nursing, and…

Sometimes I feel like there were a few steps missed when I was in school…from when I was in high school to every university program I have been in. Electronic communication has changed dramatically since I was in high school in the late 1990s. Do they teach grade school kids…

I received a call this morning with bad news. One of my primary clients at work had been fatally injured in an accident on the weekend. It was shocking to hear this. In my mind the client was well. I had spent a lot of time with that client since…

I remember being 15 and telling my best friend at the time that I liked every person that I met. In reflection, I think that what I meant was I saw the good in every person and found something likable in every person that I had ever met. Although I…

I have been having a Desperate Housewives marathon for the past few days. I did not watch it when it was originally on in the mid to late 2000s. I do not think I would have enjoyed it back then. I love it now…perhaps becuase at this moment I am…

I am so thankful that I have had the opportunity to work in different cities, different provinces, for different health care regions, and in a variety of positions from staff nurse, to clinical educator to mental health clinician (this was short lived) because I understand how it has given me…

Sometimes I get wrapped up in things that I feel weird about. For example, I have a lot of worry happening right now about a mortgage that we have to finalize for a condo we a purchasing this week. There is the headache of the process of going to the…

Being a nurse is not being a friend. There are important differences between social relationships and the professional relationship between a nurse and the person being cared for. We know personal information often to people  in very vulnerable positions. There is inherently a power differential because of this. There are…