MY LIVED EXPERIENCE AS A CANADIAN
REGISTERED NURSE
Traditional, old school, hands on training in 1978.
Caring for sick and dying adults in Saskatchewan and Alberta a full two decades before “Dr.Google”.
From a western medicine and health care lens, within an environment where patients were older or seniors, primarily English speaking, Caucasian, ethnocentric delivery of medicalized treatment, most people livingg independently and proud to be doing so.
None were concerned about how to pay for the treatment or hospital stay (Canadian model)
Nursing practice over last half century includes medsurg, home care, palliative home care, race track (no practice in northern Canadian communities, research, neonate, paediatric, psychiatry, OH/industrial, remand, forensics, cruise ships, etc.)
