In her mid-30s and raising three kids on her own in London, Ontario, Farnaz Hamedi-Fijani applied to nursing school on a lark, then reacted quickly in 2006 when offered a spot at Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University. “I said no,” she recalls.  Raised in the Iranian capital of Tehran by a father who demanded his daughter seek enlightenment and challenge, Hamedi-Fijani saw nursing through the lens of the broader, patriarchal society. “I wanted to become a medical doctor,” she says. “Nurses were portrayed as subservient.” Just nine-years-old when sparks of revolution emerged in Iran in 1978, Hamedi-Fijani and an older sister weaved through protesters who were con...