Britney Daniels, RN, MSN is a Black queer travel nurse, social advocate, and author of Journal of a Black Queer Nurse who has worked in hospital emergency rooms all over the US. Daniels holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nursing with a concentration in nursing leadership. She is currently working on her Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree.

In an honest, open presentation we will hear from Nurse Daniels herself on her experience and perspective as queer person of color (POC) in the hospital industry. She advocates for patients of color facing systemic racism and will discuss how these challenging yet often overlooked moments as a marginalized nurse have shaped her. Through her own authorship, she aims to shed light on these issues.

About The Book:

Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal diary, a tool to heal from the day-to-day traumas of seeing too much and caring too much. Hilarious, gut-wrenching, and infuriating by turns, these stories are told from the perspective of a deeply empathetic, no-nonsense young nurse, who highlights the way race, inequality, and a profit-driven healthcare system make the hospital a place where systemic racism is lived. Whether it is giving one’s own clothes to a homeless patient, sticking up for patients of color in the face of indifference from white doctors and nurses, or nursing one’s own back pain accrued from transporting too many bodies as the morgues overflowed during the pandemic, Journal of a Black Queer Nurse reveals how care is much more than treating a physical body and how the commitment to real care-care that involves listening to and understanding patients in a deeper sense–demands nurses, especially nurses of color, must also be warriors.

A Journal of a Black Queer Nurse: https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/book/9781942173779