Nursing

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Actress Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she has undergone a preventive mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer is all over the news, drawing attention to mutations in genes BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 that dramatically elevate some women’s risk for the disease.

Writer Jenny Hall spoke to Kelly Metcalfe, a professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the U of T and an adjunct scientist at the Familial Breast Cancer Research Institute at the Women’s College Research Institute.

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Nurses are key players when it comes to a patient's health care. And their roles are shaped—and shaping—the politics of medicine in Canada and around the world.

U of T's Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing will mark National Nursing Week 2013 with a free panel discussion by two leading experts in health care on the evening of May 7. 

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New parents trying to find sleep strategies and tools to get a bit more shut-eye in the first 12 weeks postpartum will have to keep looking, says new research from Assistant Professor Robyn Stremler of Bloomberg Nursing.

Dr. Robin Mason (Dept. of Psychiatry, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Women's College Research Institute) has been selected to receive the Excellence in Education Award at the 18th annual Nursing Network on Violence against Women International Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia. The award recognizes Dr. Mason's many important contributions to educate health care professionals about how to better support women who are experiencing violence.
 

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For International Women’s Day, U of T News asked a staff member, a faculty member and an alumna how U of T and/or their field of specialty has changed during the past few decades.

Beth Ali, a former field hockey player, is the director of high performance sport for the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education.