2023-2024 Academic Year

PCNE Grief Seminar

Led by David Wright, RN, PhD

June 27th, 2024, from 3pm-4:30pm EST

Here, we hosted a journal-club style conversation about grief theory, facilitated by hub lead, Professor David Wright, and joined by invited guest, Professor Susan Cadell. Two articles were discussed: one, a more ‘classic’ text by Tony Walter (1996) entitled A new model of grief: Bereavement and biography, and the other a more contemporary piece by Alex Broom and Michelle Peterie (2024) entitled Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis.

PCNE Book Club: Suffering & Human Experience

Led by Raissa Passos-dos-Santos, PhD, and Alexandra Beaudin, PhD(c)

May 14th, 2024, 12pm-2pm EST

This book club discussed three new chapters of the Routledge Handbook of Nursing and Philosophy: Carnevale’s A hermeneutic agential conception of suffering, Woods’ Life and death: Nursing responses to euthanasia, and Wolf et al.’s Rethinking holism: Expanding the lens from patient experience to human experience.

PCNE Book Club: Sociology of Ignorance

Hosted by Amélie Perron, RN, PhD

April 4th, 2024, 1pm-3pm EST

This book club featured special guest Amélie Perron, PhD, author of the chapter Who knew? Towards a sociology of ignorance in nursing (chapter 28) of the Routledge Handbook of Nursing and Philosophy.

Ethics Café: Aging and Canada’s Failing Healthcare System

Led by David Wright, RN, PhD

March 28th, 2024, 10am-12pm EST

This Ethics Café featured a critical discussion of Elizabeth’s Payne’s “The Fall” and what aging can look like in Canada’s failing healthcare system.

Mock Thesis Defence: Sociopolitical Knowing

Presented by Robyn Soulsby, RN, MScN student

March 14th, 2024, 1:30pm-3:30pm EST

Here, the PCNE hub hosted a mock MScN thesis defence for hub trainee Robyn Soulsby. Her master’s work focused on Sociopolitical Knowing: A Secondary Analysis of New Graduate Nurses Transition During the Covid-19 Pandemic.

PCNE Book Club: Queering Nursing Ethics and Moral Courage

Hosted by Amalissa Chisamore-Hum, RN, MScN student, and Justin Abbé Vaillancourt, RN, MScN

March 1st, 2024, 1pm-2:30pm EST

The PCNE hub will be hosted its second book club meeting, looking at two new chapters from the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Nursing. Here, hub trainees Amalissa Chisamore-Hum and Justin Abbé Vaillancourt led critical discussions on What can queers teach us about nursing ethics? (chapter 39) and Anxiety and moral courage (chapter 35) respectively.

PCNE Book Club: Vulnerability

Hosted by Marianne Sofronas, RN, PhD, and Kristina Ma, RN, PhD(c)

January 23rd, 2024, 12pm-1:30pm EST

In this inaugural first hub book club, the hub started a new series critically discussing select chapters of the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Nursing. Here, the hub’s very own Kristina Ma, PhD(c), and Marianne Sofronas, PhD, led discussions on Vulnerability and Relations of Care (Chapter 14), and Epistemic Injustice and Vulnerability (Chapter 44), respectively.

A Moral Conceptualization of Grief

Hosted by Liana Bailey, RN, PhD student

December 18th, 2023, 9:30am-11am EST

Here, Liana shared some of her draft theoretical framework for her PhD, proposing a moral conceptualization of grief. Then, drawing on hermeneutics and moral experience as foundational orientations, she explored ways of knowing which were ethically attuned to the complex grief experiences of terminally ill children and their families.