Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse is a Canadian Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Nursing Journal.
We currently publish twice a year
We are a collective of registered nurses whose practice, research, teaching and way of being is rooted in social justice.
We embrace the open access movement and seek to further dismantle multiple systemic barriers to knowledge dissemination.
We invite critical nursing discourse rooted in Social Justice, Advocacy, Power, Justice, Intersectionality, and Critical Social Theory.
We welcome & embrace plurality in criticality.
The Editorial Collective welcomes submissions that are language-based and/or arts-informed.
And we welcome undergraduate nursing students to consider submitting works they are engaged in concerning social justice and advocacy and to do so working with a faculty member who will serve as co-author.
Witness greatly values the important role that scholarly peer review plays and as such, we invite any of our reviewers or would-like-to-be reviewers to consider the offering from the International network of Nursing Editors' new (ish) initiative called Writer's Camp.
Read more about Go for the Gold: Being an Outstanding Peer Reviewer!
As a caring profession, nursing enjoys a great deal of public trust, positive regard, and maternal affection. This is extremely useful politically and also serves as a technique of discipline, pointing to the politically-charged character of nursing. This call for papers is intended to explore the politics of nursing, specifically interrogating the risks of remaining silent or neutral in the context of larger political and social upheaval. From nurses being mobilized as victimized heroes in pandemic times to nursing organizations deferring engagement with critiques of capitalism, militarism, cisheteropatriarchy, ableism, and nationalism, with this call we strive to make visible the stakes of politics in nursing and understand the politics of neutrality as itself a politics with implicit and explicit consequences.
