ann-marie Urban

University of Regina · Faculty of Nursing

This Quebec COVID-19 policy response report has been prepared by the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO). The Pan-Canadian COVID-19 policy monitor has been designed to collect and organize up-to-date information on how provinces and territories are responding to the crisis. It summarizes responses of health systems as we...

The aim of this article is to elucidate how nurses are positioned in Canadian news stories regarding their salaries. While the image of nursing in mass media has been widely studied, few studies explore how nurses are constructed in news stories. Drawing on ideas from institutional ethnography together with discourse analysis, this discussion highl...

Spirit at work (SAW) research emerged as a response to care provider determination to maintain a healthy and productive health care work environment, despite restructuring. The aim of this descriptive mixed-methods research is to present the care provider's perceptions of SAW. SAW is a holistic measure of care provider workplace outcomes, defined a...

Nursing is a high-risk profession for injury. A Canadian survey reports many nurses are in poor physical and emotional health; they sustain more musculoskeletal and violence-related injuries than other occupational groups. In this presentation, two Canadian nurse ethnographers, with a common interest in the objectification of nursing work, discuss...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to share two researcher's experience about the challenges associated with shadowing within the health care context. Design/methodology/approach – Institutional ethnography and shadowing. Findings – Shadowing is increasingly being used as a data collection method, however, before proceeding to use this approa...

Hospitals are situated within historical and socio-political contexts; these influence the provision of patient care and the work of registered nurses (RNs). Since the early 1990s, restructuring and the increasing pressure to save money and improve efficiency have plagued acute care hospitals. These changes have affected both the work environment a...

From early days, registered nurses have endured adverse working conditions in hospitals. While hospitals have evolved, the conditions in hospitals continue to be problematic, impacting the care of patients and the work of nurses. For example, overcapacity situations as well as efficiency and cost cutting measures have resulted in hallway nursing, w...

The aim of this article is to add to the research surrounding nurses' work in hospitals. Throughout history, nurses have faced adverse working conditions, an aspect of their work that remains remarkably unchanged today. Prevailing historical ideologies and sociopolitical conditions influences the context of nurses' work in contemporary hospitals. T...