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Seeing Beyond the Nursing Stereotype Not a Nurse Jackie or Florence Nightingale in sight at the UBC School of Nursing’s inaugural EDGE Film Festival on April 6, 2017 at the Chan Centre. Smashing cinematic stereotypes, the 2017 EDGE Film Festival cut through clichéd notions of nursing by focusing on the participants involved in the wide scope of nursing research being conducted at UBC. The traditional opening by Elder Roberta Price welcomed the packed audience to Coast Salish Territory. The evening was launched with a short film on gay men and…read more

Vancouver’s First Vet Pop-Up Clinic On December 4th, 2016 a team of UBC Nursing students collaboratively put on Vancouver’s first primary care clinic for clients and their pets. The idea for the clinic was proposed by Kelsi Jessamine, a UBC School of Nursing (SoN) student, who integrated development of the clinic into The SoN Synthesis Project course (NURS 334). Kelsi worked on organizing, developing, and directing the clinic with a devoted team of UBC Nursing students. The student team included: Jessica Ardley, Laura Gallagher, Livianna Cristea, Jennifer Hoffman, and Anna…read more

Developing tools for diabetes education The Union Gospel Mission (UGM) provides meals, shelter, and substance recovery services to people living in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) every day. To better serve their guests, UGM requested training from the UBC School of Nursing on how to manage hypoglycemia in guests who have diabetes. For our NURS 344 Synthesis Project, a team of students consisting of Rebecca Burns, Brittany Kliment, Katelyn Newell, and Shelby Slater developed a training module, hypoglycemia kits, and a foot care poster, the latter to be used during foot…read more

and deepening perspectives of discriminated populations A personal account from Elder Don “On behalf of the NURS 336 class ( Rotation A 2017) and UBC SON we thank Elder Don for so willingly sharing his life story to enhance student learning”. –Ranjit Dhari, Course Leader “Bevel up,” a street nurse says to a young man in an alley of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES) in a documentary by Nettie Wild. The nurse is pointing to the side of the needle he should insert in his arm when injecting drugs. The…read more

A Student’s Insights The BC Patient Safety and Quality Council holds a Quality Forum once a year to showcase quality projects that are benefiting our patients and to raise awareness of initiatives that are being implemented to meet the demand for quality improvement. At this year’s event, the objectives were to: “Ignite action to improve quality of care for patients and providers; Create and strengthen connections and collaborations across all areas of care; and Share effective strategies and leading practices to stimulate and sustain improvement” These objectives were met through…read more

Incoming Director of the School of Nursing Dr Elizabeth Saewyc will have been at UBC for 13 years when she takes the title of Director of the School of Nursing on July 1, 2017. She comes to this new role within the School with a varied background that includes experience as a journalist, former head of a marketing communications company, a public health nurse, and a nurse researcher leading the interdisciplinary Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC) [http://www.saravyc.ubc.ca] here at UBC. She completed her BSN(hons) in nursing at…read more

2017 Nursing History Symposium On March 2nd, 2017, the fourth Nursing History Symposium was held in the School of Nursing under the umbrella of the UBC Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry. The symposium examined interconnections between arts, crafts and healing in the history and current practice of professional work. Keynote speaker Dr Sasha Mullally from the University of New Brunswick and three panel members, Dr Megan Davies from York University with Drs Alison Phinney and Helen Brown from the UBC School of Nursing. The panel explored ways arts and crafts…read more

Marion Woodward Lecture with John Keady In November 1901 a woman was admitted to Frankfurt Insane Asylum with a weakening of the memory, persecution mania, sleeplessness, restlessness, inability to perform any physical and mental work, and needing treatment from the local mental institution. The doctor’s first assessment of his new patient stated that when asked to write her name, she could begin correctly with “Frau” (Mrs) but the rest she had forgotten. Although she was reminded that her name was Auguste Deter, she remained confused and did not know how…read more