On November 19th, Prof. Nancy Edwards visited the Ingram School of Nursing to share wisdom gleaned from decades of expertise in global health and community nursing.
A Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa, Edwards graciously participated in a brown-bag lunch meeting with doctoral students where she gave advice for developing a successful research career. In the afternoon, she treated an enthusiastic audience of 40 faculty, master鈥檚 and PhD students to a performance of her riveting one-woman show titled Rethinking Good Intentions.
Based on her searingly honest memoir Not One, Not Even One: A Memoir of Life-altering Experiences in Sierra Leone, West Africa, the play captures her experiences as a rural community health nurse living and working among the Mende people. The title of the memoir came from a woman she had met in Sierra Leone, who, when asked how many of the 11 children she had given birth to survived infancy, replied tearfully, 鈥淣ot one. Not even one.鈥�
The performance was followed by an engaging discussion about the challenges of working in under-resourced communities with different belief systems and the importance of developing cultural awareness.
Kudos to PhD Program Director Sonia Semenic, who coordinated the visit.
