Florence Budden is a long-time advocate for patients and their families.
When Florence Budden opened a copy of Changing Directions, Changing Lives, the report containing Canada’s new mental health strategy, she was elated to see that the voices of people affected by mental illness were finally being heard and respected.
“That was probably the proudest moment of my career,” says...
The questions raised by the possibility of the legalizing of euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide do not always look at the existing rate of suicide among the elderly. In Canada, statistics show an increase in the number of elderly people who take their lives. A literature search shows that many conclude that most of these suicides take place among those who are depressed. An obvious...
G. BEAL1 RN PhD CPMHN (C), A. CHAN2 RN MS(N) CNS CPMHN (C), S. CHAPMAN3 RN BScN CPMHN (C), J. EDGAR4 RN BN CPMHN (C), G. MCINNIS-PERRY5 RN DNSc CNS CPMHN (C), M. OSBORNE6 RN PhD & E. S. MINA7 RN PhD CPMHN (C)1
Senior Professional Advisor, Toronto, Ontario,
Clinical Nurse Specialist Mental Health, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Community Mental Health Nurse,...
Film portrayals perpetuate courtesy stigma. Republished from Crosscurrents March 2010 issue with permission.
By: Ned Morgan
Mainstream film has never been very kind to mental health nursing. More often, it has either undersold the role of nursing – pushing it to the fringes as window dressing to the work of doctors – or promoted a stigmatized and distorted view of nurses as uncanny...
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