Current Projects (continued)
Projects
2SLGBTQIA+ Liaison Nurse
This project explores the impact of an Island Health 2SLGBTQIA+ Liaison Nurse on queer and trans people’s experiences of health care, including willingness to seek care in the future. Utilizing mixed methods, our team is collecting survey and interview data to capture community members’ experiences of engaging with a 2SLGBTQIA+ Liaison Nurse and better understand their health care needs. As this Liaison Nurse role is the first of its kind, pilot data will be utilized to inform expansion of this position to other health authorities within British Columbia. We are additionally conducting a scoping review to examine the current literature on other similar roles within the health care system for serving 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.
Nursing Student's Experiences of Discrimination
This study aims to examine nursing students’ experiences of discrimination within their programs, across undergraduate and graduate education. Utilizing mixed methods, we engaged students, faculty, and staff in a survey exploring topics of both experiencing and witnessing discrimination, as well as respondents’ perspectives on responding to discrimination. Subsequent interviews explored these topics in greater depth, with a particular focus on strategies for redressing discrimination across clinical, classroom, and administrative contexts.
Discipline within Nursing Regulation
This project is a discourse analysis of Consent Agreements and Hearings documents inquires into the processes and consequences of disciplinary action within nursing regulation. In particular, we are examining how discipline is enacted against nurses who use substances, and conducting an analysis that explores current tensions inherent to ‘regulating’ stigma and discrimination within the profession.
