Formal nursing education: St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, St. John’s, NF 1987, BScN and Primary Healthcare Nurse Practitioner certificate, uOttawa 1998, MScHQ Queens 2015 and currently PhD(c) Adult Education and Community Health/ Indigenous Health Collaborative, OISE, University of Toronto
In my heart I carry my traditional Teachings, Stories and Wisdom.
My proposed research, HONORING THE SPIRIT OF MI’KMAW NURSING KNOWLEDGE: CRITICAL AUTOETHNOGRAPY AS TRANSFORMATIVE TEACHER uses memoir and collaborative ethnography to reconsider a critical history of nursing and the power of story as teacher.
Independent Indigenous Wholistic Health Researcher, Mi’kmaw NP (over 35 years experience) and nurse educator (4 years), committed to creating decolonized teaching and research spaces grounded in the epistemologies of Mi’kmaw land, language, and culture. Specifically, Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) and Ksaltultinej (Love in Action) guide scholarship and research in Indigenous feminism, wholistic health, planetary health, land-based learning, Indigenous methodologies, & decolonizing nursing curriculum.
Interests includes figure skating, hiking, reading, and spending time with family which includes our Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Kinu.
