Lisa Bourque Bearskin

Dr. Bernie Pauly is a Professor in the School of Nursing, a Scientist with the Canadian Institutes for Substance Use Research and a University of Victoria Community Engaged Scholar. Her research focuses on the promotion of health equity at the intersection of substance use and homelessness in collaboration with communities impacted by health inequities. She is the co-lead of the Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Study (CMAPS), BC Provincial Evaluation of Safer Supply, BC Community Laboratory on Substance Use, xaȼqanaǂ ʔitkiniǂ Project (Many Ways of Doing the Same Thing) and the Housing Justice Project. She is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a collaborator with Salvation Army Centre for Addictions Services and Research at the University of Stirling, Scotlalnd and the Australian MAP Protocol Steering Committee. She has received the Canadian Public Health Association Ron Draper Health Promotion Award, Nurse and Nurse Practitioner Association of BC: Excellence in Advancing Nursing Knowledge and Research Award, a BC Reconciliation Award, BC Community Achievement Award and a Phillip Owen Award for Excellence in Policy Research.

Recent publications:

Bourque Bearskin, M. L. B. (2023). Decolonization the what, why, and how: A treaties on Indigenous nursing knowledge. Nursing Philosophy, e12, 430. https://doi.org/10.11 11/nup.12430
Bourque Bearskin, L., Phillips-Beck, W., Kennedy, A., Pepin, J., Myrick, F., Pearce Lamothe, J., Khazal, S. (2022). Calling Nurses to Move Forward Together in Truth and Love. Quality Advancement in Nursing Education – Avancées en formation infirmière, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.17483/2368-6669.1388
Bourque Bearskin, R.L. Kennedy, A. & Jakubec, S. (2022) Cultural safety for Indigenous health equity. In R. Srivastava The Canadian health care professional’s guide to cultural competence (2nd ed). Elsevier
Bourque Bearskin, R. L., Kennedy, A., Kelly, L., Chakanyuka, C. (2021). Indigenist nursing: Caring keeps us close to the source. In M., Hills, J., Watson, & C. Cara, Creating a caring sciencecCurriculum: An emancipatorypedagogy for nursing. Springer
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