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School of Nursing

Dr. Blythe Bell

Blythe Bell wearing white tank top

Assistant Teaching Professor – Limited Term

School of Nursing

Contact:
Office: HSD A441 250 472 4265
Credentials:
RN British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives, BN University of Calgary, PhD Leadership Studies – Education, University of Victoria
Area(s) of expertise:
Social Justice, anti-oppressive pedagogies, Perinatal nursing

Biography

Blythe Bell is a registered nurse and educator working with the School of Nursing in a limited term position for 2025. Blythe’s teaching and research interests center on anti-oppression for students and health care users alike. Their practice career spans renal, cardiac, and perinatal specialties in Canada, the US, and Australia.

Prior to joining the University of Victoria, Blythe taught at schools across the province including the University of British Columbia, Camosun College, and Thompson Rivers University. 

Anti-racist education in undergraduate nursing

Professionalism as a social construct

Culturally safe practices of new graduate nurses

NURS 484 Understanding Indigenous Wellness

NURS 341 Nursing Inquiry

NURS 370 CPE

NURS 430 Leadership in Nursing

NURS 456 Nursing within Communities and Health Systems - Practicum

NURS 470/491 CPE

NURS 520 Nursing Philosophy

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=3UkV0yQAAAAJ

ORCid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9781-1325


Melino, K., Bell, B., & Freborg, K. (2025). Deconstructing professionalism as code for white (power): Authenticity as resistance in nursing. Nursing Philosophy 26(1). doi: 10.1111/nup.70002

Bell, B. (2023). Mobilizing anti-racism here is like squeezing a square peg through a round hole: A critical qualitative inquiry into settler-colonial Canadian nursing education. [Doctoral dissertation; University of Victoria]. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/15277

Bell, B. (2023). “We’d really love to but we’re really busy”: Silence, precarity, and resistance as structural barriers to anti-racism in nursing education.  Journal of Advanced Nursing,00, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15795

Bell, B. (2022). ‘Settler harm reduction’ in nursing education: Generativity not hierarchy. In J. Walsh, B. Hoffman, J. Dillard-Wright (Eds.), Nursing a Radical Imagination: Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures. Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003245957-12

Bell, B., & van Daalen-Smith, C. (2021). No imagining too radical, no action too disruptive. Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, 3(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.104

Bell, B. (2021). White dominance in nursing education: A target for anti-racist efforts. Nursing Inquiry, 28(1):e12379, https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12379

Bell, B. (2021). Towards abandoning the Master’s tools: The politics of a universal nursing identity. Nursing Inquiry,28(2):e12395 https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12395