Outgoing Editorial Board Member
With enormous appreciation, Witness wishes to thank the extensive contributions of Dr. Simon Adam
Read more about Outgoing Editorial Board MemberWith enormous appreciation, Witness wishes to thank the extensive contributions of Dr. Simon Adam
Read More Read more about Outgoing Editorial Board MemberIn honor of The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Witness is pleased to release a PODCAST featuring two of the authors of our recent article Etuaptmumk (Two Eyed Seeing).
Read More Read more about Etuaptmumk (Two Eyed Seeing) - PODCASTOur Peer Reviewers are invaluable
Read More Read more about Thank you to Witness' Peer ReviewersWitness Vol 6 (2) Call for Papers
Read More Read more about Children are People Too! - Call for PapersEditorial Advisory Board News
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While we LOVE special issues, every so often we issue an OPEN Call for Papers that reflects the ethos and intent of the journal - For 2024 we open with our periodic Open Call named: " Critical Nursing for Health Equity."
Read More Read more about OPEN Call for Papers Vol 6 (1). Critical Nursing for Health EquityThe Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse is thrilled to welcome Dr. Jessica Dillard-Wright onto our editorial advisory board.
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CRITICAL NURSING for Health EQUITY - an Open Call for Papers for our 5th year!
Read More Read more about OPEN Call for Papers Vol 5 (1). Critical Nursing for Health EquityCall for Papers Vo 4(2) CRITICAL COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
Read More Read more about Call for Papers Vol 4(2). Critical Community Health NursingCall for Papers Vol 4(2): Critical Community Health Nursing.
Read More Read more about Call for Papers Vol 4(2). Critical Community Health NursingCALL FOR PAPERS Volume 4(1)
For 2022 - our first Call for Papers welcomes a wide range of submissions reflecting the intent and direction of this journal.
See it, Speak it, Write it, Change it.
Read More Read more about Call for Papers Volume 4(1) - See it, Speak it, Write it, Change it.The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse is pleased to announce a special issue exploring Nursing’s role in sustainability and planetary health. As one of the largest and most trusted professional workforces in Canada, nurses can have significant influence in climate change discourse and action. It has long been within the nurses’ professional mandate to address issues concerning environmental health and today, that mandate extends to sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. Through critical consciousness raising, action and system transformation, Nurses and nursing can and must work to affect meaningful and sustained change.
Firm Deadline: July 1st, 2021
Guest Editors
June Kaminski, RN, PhD (c) Faculty & Curriculum Coordinator, Faculty of Health, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Wanda Martin RN, PhD Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan
Read More Read more about Nursing (on) a Sick Planet: Critical Consciousness and Action in a Time of Planetary DeclineCALL FOR PAPERS VOL 3(1)
The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse is pleased to announce a special issue on critical anti-racism practice, including clinical, research, leadership and policy making practice. Racism is a pressing moral concern, embedded in colonial, imperial and capitalist foundations that are created, sustained and redeployed by systemic ruling relations. This issue builds upon a heightened global awakening of the interpersonal and structural violence of racism, inviting critical discourse regarding anti-racist nursing.
Read More Read more about DISRUPTING NURSING: Towards Anti-Racist and Decolonial Practice. Call for Papers Vol 3(1) Due February 14th, 2021
Focus of 2021 Vol 2(2) announced.
Read More Read more about Nursing the Planet: Sustainability, Nursing, and Planetary Health.The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse is pleased to announce a special issue exploring the myriad ways that current discourses in mental health care and mental health nursing can produce or reinforce precarious mental health and emotional distress or that create damaging identities for those who experience psychological difficulties thereby leading to stigmatization, marginalization and exclusion. It also seeks to make visible those discourses and practices that challenge these harmful processes and promote a more just and inclusionary world.
Read More Read more about Power, Discourse and Resistance - Vol 2(2) Call for Papers2020's second Issue - focus announced
New Section: 'open'
Read More Read more about Focus of 2020 Vol 2, Issue 2 AnnouncedPlease come to a day-long workshop hosted by Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse at York University, in informal cooperation with The International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE). Space is limited. All local members of the Editorial Advisory Collective are asked to make arrangments if possible, to attend. For those members that are out of town and would like to take advantage of the small subsidies available, please contact Cheryl asap. We are opening this up to nursing students in graduate programs, to interested nurses and to faculty in other institutions. For anyone interested in coming from out of town, you'd need to make your own arrangments for accomodation but we can give you ideas. There is an on campus swanky hotel called Schulich.
Read More Read more about TRENDS AND ISSUES IN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: A CJCND WORKSHOPSAVE THE DATE for a day-long workshop hosted by Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse at York University, in informal cooperation with The International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE). Space is limited. All local members of the Editorial Advisory Collective are asked to make arrangments if possible, to attend. For those members that are out of town and would like to take advantage of the small subsidies available, please contact Cheryl asap. We are opening this up to nursing students in graduate programs and to faculty in other Ontario institutions. For anyone interested in coming from out of town, you'd need to make your own arrangments for accomodation but we can give you ideas. There is an on campus swanky hotel called Schulich.
Read More Read more about TRENDS AND ISSUES IN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: A WITNESS WORKSHOP2020 Special Issue:
Nīpawīstimatowin -“bearing witness for one another”
The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse is pleased to announce a special issue grounded in Canadian Indigenous discourse and worldviews, focusing on nursing’s role in truth and reconciliation, Indigenous health and well-being and the necessity to decolonize nursing in Canada. We warmly welcome three guest co-editors along with elder advisors.
Guest Editors: Dr. Lisa Bourque Bearskin, RN, PhD (Beaver Lake Cree Nation), Dr. Andrea Kennedy, RN, PhD (Settler & Métis ancestry), and Cheyenne Joseph, RN, MPH (Mi'kmaq Nation)
Elder Advisors: Madeleine Kétéskwēw Dion Stout, RN, MA, Hon. Doctorate (Kehewin First Nation & Tsawwassen First Nation) and Evelyn Voyageur, RN, PhD, Hon. Doctorate (Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw).
Read More Read more about Special Issue: Nīpawīstimatowin -“bearing witness for one another”Witness is pleased to release it's second call for papers, with a firm deadline of August 15th.
Read More Read more about Call for Papers - VOL 1 Issue 2 - SOCIAL JUSTICE NURSINGInaugural Call for Papers Released Nov 20th, 2018. Submissions due Feb 20th, 2019.
Read More Read more about Inaugural Call for Papers: Issue 1, Vol 1 - See it ... Speak it ... Write it .... Change it ....Nov 20th, 2018 Official Launch Day of Witness
Read More Read more about OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF WITNESSFounding Editorial Advisory Collective Announced!
Representing a cross section of diverse critical nurse scholars from across Canada, Witness is pleased to announce the Founding Editorial Advisory Collective. We are grateful and mobilized.
Read More Read more about Founding Editorial Advisory Collective Finalized