Developing Nursing Geography with an Ecological Lens

Alysha Jones; Jacqueline Avantay Strus

doi:10.25071/2291-5796.135

Authors

Alysha T. Jones University of Northern British Columbia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3734-3272
Jacqueline Avantay Strus Université de Saint-Boniface https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9343-1122

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.135

Abstract

In this paper, we propose that community health nursing is a promising context for ecologically inclusive and “place-sensitive” (Andrews, 2002) nursing practice. With a strong grounding in social justice, we believe that Canadian community health nurses have the power to create a differential space of research and practice for environmental justice and planetary health thereby challenging harmful anthropocentric and biomedical models of health and health care. To do this, we theorize an ‘environmental nursing geography’ including Henri Lefebvre’s idea of the production of space. Lefebvre’s dialectics give us tools to ecologize space and place and further the efforts of CHNs to support the health of all people and the planet through justice and equity.

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Author Biographies

Alysha T. Jones , University of Northern British Columbia

Alysha T. Jones, RNC, MSc, MScN (c) is a community health nurse and clinical nurse educator. Alysha is also a Master's student at the University of Northern British Columbia and the co-chair of the Environmental Justice and Reconciliation Committee of the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment. Alysha's research interests include environmental and climate justice, geographies of nursing, community health nursing, and ecopsychology.

Jacqueline Avantay Strus , Université de Saint-Boniface

Jacqueline/Jack Avanthay Strus, R.N., B.Sc.N., M.Sc.N., Ph.D. (c) is an assistant professor at the
School of Nursing of the Université de Saint-Boniface, in Saint Boniface, Manitoba, and
a doctoral student at the School of Nursing of the University of Ottawa, Ontario. They are
also the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment president. Their research
and clinical interests include critical theory, critical health geography, health equity,
sexual diversity, and the transition to parenthood. They have worked on a number of
projects that introduced land-based and experiential learning in nursing education.