nursingforsocialjustice

I think that some of the reason for burn out of mental health nurses is that sometimes we get so invested in the health outcome that we believe should happen. I think that there can be a significant decrease in burn out if we stop looking at the patient’s experience…

I think that something that could be better instilled in nurses in their undergraduate nursing programs is the importance (and arguably necessity) of mentorship in the transition from being a student to being a graduate nurse and ultimately a Registered Nurse. Sometimes I feel like when I work with new…

The only way I can make it through this is believing that the reason why people choose to go be nurses is because they want to do good and be good at their job. I fully recognize that good intentions do not always translate into the best results, but I…

Sometimes (most of the time) I feel like I need move myself forward, constantly climb upwards, in my career as a nurse. I think that I feel this constant drive because I am always thinking that I can do more, I can achieve more, but should I push myself more?…

My fourth child (my third son) was born 2 weeks ago. Love, Michelle

There was a moment in my nursing career when I realized that my hope and optimism and care is not the same thing and being so invested in the outcome of any particular intervention (or many interventions) or action that my heart is broken and my hopes are dashed at…

Recently I was speaking to a peer who shared that their one of their biggest motivators for working in the area that they do is anger…in further discussion the anger was directed towards things that as an individual health care worker we have very little control over. In the days…

I had an experience today that left me pretty unsettled. I feel so unsettled that right now it’s the middle of the night and I cannot sleep because my brain cannot stop trying to process the information I was exposed to today. I am struggling with how it matches with…

I participated in a discussion recently that focused on the question, is being a nurse just a job? I think there is a bigger question that could have been broached as well, is one’s career a central feature of their identity? I think that there is much evidence that supports…

Yesterday I attended a regional meeting for the nurses union in my province. If you do not know about the history of unions with respect to the profession of nursing or with respect to the history of the workers rights movement in Canada then I strongly suggest reading about it.…