Victoria Smye

Western University, London Ontario · Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences

The DUDES Club is a novel men's health and wellness organization founded in 2010 in Vancouver, BC. Since 2017, the DUDES Club has rapidly expanded in Northern BC and, with the help of a partnership with the First Nations Health Authority, has grown to include 40 sites in British Columbia and 2 sites nationally. In this study, we analyze data from i...

Indigenous and men’s health represent challenging policy issues around the world. The DUDES Club, a novel men’s health organization founded in 2010 in Vancouver, B.C., attempts to address these issues. With the help of the First Nations Health Authority, the DUDES Club has expanded to 40 sites in British Columbia and two nationally. The purpose of...

Nurses’ experiences in, and the overall effectiveness of, widely used alternative‐to‐discipline programs to manage nurses’ substance‐use problems have not been adequately scrutinized. We uncovered the conflicted official and experiential ways of knowing one such alternative‐to‐discipline program in a Canadian province. We explicated this conflict t...

Background Under- and over nutrition as well as nutrition risk factors such as communicable and non-communicable diseases are a common and major cause of morbidity and mortality in correctional facilities. Consequently, medical nutrition therapy (MNT), a spectrum of nutrition services aimed at optimizing individual well-being, is being recognized a...

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 col...

Problematic substance use (PSU) among nurses has wide-ranging adverse implications. A critical integrative literature review was conducted with an emphasis on building knowledge regarding the influence of structural factors within nurses' professional environments on nurses with PSU. Five thematic categories emerged: (i) access, (ii) stress, and (i...

Problem addressed In Canada, there are few health promotion programs for men, particularly programs focused on indigenous and other men marginalized by social and structural inequities. Objective of program To build solidarity and brotherhood among vulnerable men; to promote health through education, dialogue, and health screening clinics; and to h...

Accepting disruption as an inevitable occurrence in life, five nurse-teacher-researchers explore their experience with being disruptive/being disrupted. Reflection on the all-encompassing embodied experience of disruption takes us through a process of exploration and meaning-making. We pause to show what it is like to be in-between the known and un...

Although research about the consequences of paternal incarceration for family well-being has grown in recent years, there has been minimal exploration of the role of food insecurity and its familial and inter-generational impacts. A qualitative study was undertaken that focused on fathers who had the experience of incarceration in the Canadian fede...

Although research about the consequences of paternal incarceration for family well-being has grown in recent years, there has been minimal exploration of the role of food insecurity and its familial and inter-generational impacts. A qualitative study was undertaken that focused on fathers who had the experience of incarceration in the Canadian fede...

In this article, we draw on findings from an ethnographic study that explored experiences of healthcare access from the perspectives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients seeking services at the non-urgent division of an urban emergency department (ED) in Canada. Our aim is to critically examine the notion of 'underclassism' within the context...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of British Columbia, 2004. Includes bibliographical references. Photocopy.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2004. Includes bibliographical references.