Open AccessA Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse by Cathy Crowe
Author(s) -
Natalie Stake-Doucet
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nursing leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1929-6355
pISSN - 1910-622X
DOI - 10.12927/cjnl.2020.26319
Subject(s) - memoir , biography , perspective (graphical) , sociology , order (exchange) , knapsack problem , nursing , management , psychoanalysis , political science , law , psychology , medicine , computer science , art , business , visual arts , economics , finance , algorithm
A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse, published by FriesenPress in 2019, is an engaging nursing read. The author, Cathy Crowe, is well known for her activism against homelessness and has received many commendations and awards for her work, along with five different honorary doctorates from various Canadian universities. This autobiography offers a critical historical perspective on the evolution of Canadian healthcare from the 1970s until today.