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Farnaz Hamedi-Fijani
Profiled Nurse
Farnaz Hamedi-Fijani
Three things you didn't know about
She knits, crochets, and does crafts to remind her of the joys of her childhood in Tehran.
She uses dance as an emotional release and to connect with others.
She volunteered at London’s Cross Cultural Learning Centre, teaching English to an immigrant from Iraq who was blind.
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...
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Issue
March/April 2019