Deanna Bickford honoured with the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association’s Award for Excellence in Truth and Reconciliation

She has focused on bringing her students, colleagues, and partners together to reveal healthcare opportunities and issues and co-create solutions using a positive and appreciative stance. For nearly a decade, Deanna has worked with youth, elders, and local peers at Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation to facilitate dialogues, build capacitates, and reintroduce traditional strategies for knowledge sharing. It is her intergeneration intercultural approach that has richness in her teachings. Her emphasis on two eyed seeing, which essentially bridges Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of knowing, and invents cultural safety and cultural humility in her research, teaching, practice, and leadership efforts. She has published and presented extensively locally and globally and therefore contributing to nursing and global health knowledge.

Congratulations Deanna for all your amazing work in this field, and we look forward to seeing your future strides in pursuit of truth and reconciliation.