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- Contributor(s)
- Charlotte A. Ross; Sonya L. Jakubec; Nicole S. Berry; Victoria Smye
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- We undertook an institutional ethnography utilizing the expert knowledge of nurses who have experienced substance-use problems to discover: (a) What are the discourses embedded in the talk among nurses in their everyday work worlds that socially organize their substance-use practices and (b) how do those discourses manage these activities? Data collection included interviews, researcher reflexivity, and texts that were critically analyzed with a focus on institutional features. Analysis revealed dominant moralistic and individuated discourses in nurses’ workplace talk that socially organized their substance-use practices, subordinated and silenced experiences of work stress, and erased...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- D. Scharie Tavcer; Margaret Bowles
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- The Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter (CWES) team continues to make a difference in lives of women and their children fleeing domestic violence. However, they realise they can do more. A challenge within their shelter program is that women with substance-related issues are occasionally not a good fit for the family centered approach currently in place at the CWES shelter. There are many women, with substance-related issues, who are in need of support related to domestic violence, but supports in Calgary are limited, and often in silos. CWES is considering how they can best serve this specific population of women in Calgary.
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Arts