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I. Letting Go of Autonomy “Nursing is an autonomous profession.” The phrase gets offered as proof of progress, evidence that we are no longer seen as helpers or assistants or extensions of someone else’s expertise. We belong at the table. We earned the seat. The pursuit of autonomy has been hard-won, and it answered real…
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At this year’s National Student Nurses’ Association Annual Convention, delegates adopted a resolution encouraging nursing programs to expand education on safe sleep practices to prevent SIDS. I sat on the Resolutions Committee, where our role is neutrality, so I did not speak on the motion. The conversation has stayed with me since. Like a lot…
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Thresholds are where life negotiates. In an ecosystem they are the zones where organisms adjust in real time to shifting conditions, usually with limited resources. Moss lives there, and has an ancient, embodied capacity to dwell in the unstable. Mosses are among the oldest land plants, and they diverge from the flora that dominates most…
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There’s a kind of wisdom that lives in the knots, where fibers cross and tension holds and stories pull against each other until something strong enough to carry us comes out of it. That’s where this project begins. Threads of Counsel is a place to bring together what I’ve learned in nursing, law, disability justice,…
Threads of Counsel 