Josephine Ensign NP

Summary

• Professor, University of Washington, Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing
  
  Adjunct Professor, University of Washington, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
  
  Affiliate faculty with UW Simpson Center for the Humanities
  
  Family Nurse Practitioner in active practice since 1986
  
  Author of narrative nonfiction book, 'Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net' (August 2016)—winner of the American Journal of Nursing 2017 Book of the Year Award. Author of the nonfiction book, 'Soul Stories: Voices From the Margins' (San Francisco: University of California Medical Humanities Press, 2018). Author of forthcoming book, Skid Road: The Intersection of Health and Homelessness in an American Frontier City (Johns Hopkins University Press).
  
  30+ years experience as a nurse in primary care for homeless and marginalized populations.
  
  Focus on teaching, research, provision of health care, writing, and advocacy with homeless people. Policy analysis and advocacy for people marginalized by homelessness and poverty. Interprofessional health science education using community-engaged service-learning and health humanities/narrative medicine. My aim is to humanize health care through narrative advocacy and the use of health humanities and public scholarship.
  
  Specialties: public health, primary care, advocacy, community health, community-based participatory research, health services research, literary nonfiction writer/ narrative medicine and narrative advocacy.