– Life as a Registered Nurse & Non-Profit Leader –
Katrina Stephenson is a Registered Nurse and the founder and CEO of Nurse 2 Nurse Peer Support – a Canadian non-profit organization focussed on providing peer support services for those within nursing.
Over the last 19 years, Katrina has focused the majority of her nursing career in the harm reduction field and caring for individuals challenged by Concurrent Disorders; both mental health and substance use challenges, including trauma.
Mental Health Advocacy
Through her own experiences in compassionately caring for both her patients’ traumas and her own work-related occupational nursing traumatic stress, she endeavoured to create an organization to help nurses across the country manage their mental health.
Collaborative Efforts
In providing safe and holistic care to those within nursing, her and her organization work with government bodies, insurance agencies, employers, regulatory bodies, unions and peers in order to create psychologically safe workplaces.
Purpose Driven Work
As a Harm Reduction Nurse, Katrina believes it is essential to understand and care for people with mental health and substance use challenges in such a way to reduces stigma and discrimination.
Reasons to Listen
This will be a talk worth listening to for:
- those interested in discovering what harm reduction nursing entails
- those looking for inspiration as per how a job can morph into something even more meaningful and purposeful
- those who are looking for hidden insights on the challenges and rewards within the field of nursing
Listeners will come away with insights on:
- a broad look at the various specialities within the field of nursing
- the realities of being a nurse
- Katrina’s peer to peer nurse support organization
- the type of peer support services her organization offers
- what it’s like to be a mental health focused nursing professional
- what initially attracted Katrina to the field of nursing
- a formative career moment for Katrina
- hidden challenges and rewards of being a registered nurse
- the mental health aspects of the work
- a moving story related to the work, which in many ways symbolizes the profession
- the future of nursing from Katrina’s perspective
- much more!
A Memorable Quote from the Episode:
“We meet you at the beginning of life. We help you at the end life. So we’re there across the whole spectrum.”
-Katrina Stephenson
Discover More
For those interested in learning more about Katrina and her work, be sure to visit her non-profit Nurse 2 Nurse Peer Support. You can also find and follow Katrina on the following platforms:
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