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Topics: Street Nurses For Change

2007 6 min
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What happens when advocating for best health-care practices is politically inconvenient? Street nurse Liz James talks about her role in Canada’s first underground needle exchange, and street nurse Fiona Gold describes how she supported North America’s first supervised-injection site; both nurses took risks, fought for change, and saved lives. *Watch the complete documentary. *View all 10 educational playlists. *Explore the Teacher's Guide for this chapter.

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What happens when advocating for best health-care practices is politically inconvenient? Street nurse Liz James talks about her role in Canada’s first underground needle exchange, and street nurse Fiona Gold describes how she supported North America’s first supervised-injection site; both nurses took risks, fought for change, and saved lives.



*Watch the complete documentary.
*View all 10 educational playlists.

*Explore the Teacher's Guide for this chapter.

Health and Medicine Social Issues All subjects
  • director
    Nettie Wild

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