Graduate students
UVic School of Nursing's First PhD Graduates, Kara Schick-Makaroff and Anne Syme
Entering doctoral studies as a mature learner, Syme reflects on her PhD as an “epic” rather than a career “platform.” “My program gave me the opportunity to finally say, with evidence, something my career had taught me. I wanted to sensitize palliative, oncology and homecare nurses to understand people in a place of liminality, to know that as nurses your work is to hold that space open with patients. Second, my program assisted me with ‘changing my mind,’ augmenting my thinking and problem solving to include multiple ways of understanding things. It worked.”
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