nursingforsocialjustice

Thinking that normal is anything other than an average of the privileged. Was the world different before 2020 or was it just different to you? Is that just semantics? I don’t think so. Wars were happening. Famines were happening. People were dying from opiate poisonings. School shooting were happening. Social…

This is a powerful thing that I heard today. Love, Michelle D.

Sometimes we suffer in silence. Our nursing peers can help us stay strong in this profession. Take a listen to the newest episode of The Shift Change. Love, Michelle D.

I’m tired of all the talk of “professional boundaries” at work, like it’s something that only needs to happen when someone is too close to a patient or situation. What about when the boundary is way too far away, like so far they the clinician is like a robot? What…

Is it a legitimate fear to think that if many people who have nothing get something, that that something will directly lead to you having less? Like in an apocalyptic way? A strange spiral of catastrophizing, no? Do you ever stop and think about how terrible that sounds? But that’s…

Voices together can be strong. But of course, there are parameters…What is the line between right and wrong? Is there one? This can be a turning point in history where we say no to bullying and patriarchy. When you are different too much energy is spent on trying to fit…

Get ready for those who are filled with hate and struggling to hold onto patriarchy and colonization and keeping others down in order to lift themselves up to claim credit for something that they did not only not do, but needlessly harmed others in a show of marketing and facade…

I wondered this when I drove home from a very short shift that I worked on an inpatient adolescent mental health unit last evening. I wondered what conversations and education would be delivered to staff. I wondered if conversations would be had about institutionalization and violence and inequity of access…

When you put yourself out there on social media as being in support of a movement led by racists well…I hope one would think it through before publicly posting their support. And if not, well you get what you get and don’t get upset. Love, Michelle D.

The idea of being self-aware of one’s experience of acute distress is quite the feat when someone is barely hanging on. It’s quite a burden to bear for people may not be able to judge whether or not they are in it, much less get themselves together enough to reach…