UW nursing professor Josephine Ensign shares her experience of being homeless and serving homeless people
Josephine Ensign, associate professor at the UW School of Nursing, has intimate experience with homelessness. She has worked with homeless people throughout her career, starting as a nurse practitioner. She was also homeless herself at one point in her life.
As she portrays in her new memoir, “Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling through the Safety Net,” (She Writes Press, 2016), her experiences with homeless people, coming to see them as real, valuable people, caused her eventually to question and reject the “charity” approach with which she started her career. ...