Faculty & Staff

Dr. Ann-Marie Urban is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing, at the University of Regina, in Regina, Saskatchewan. Dr. Urban began her nursing career in 1984 as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse. After working in the area of mental health for several years, she obtained a degree in nursing and assumed the role of clinical nurse educator on this medical unit. In 2000 Dr. Urban transitioned to nursing education, teaching in the baccalaureate program. Since 2011, she has been on faculty at the University of Regina, Faculty of Nursing completing her doctoral studies in 2012. Dr. Urban teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate program; both online and classroom.

Dr. Urban’s doctoral work has focused on understanding what influences nurses’ work in an acute care setting. As an institutional ethnographer and post structural theorist, Dr. Urban seeks to understand ideologies and discourses related to nurses’ work, exploring how stress and resilience contribute to and/or influence nurses. As such, her work has provided a critical understanding of gender and power related to nursing. Her other interests include health and well-being; she has presented extensively on body, mind and spiritual self-care, teaches yoga and has volunteered as a fitness instructor at the YMCA for over 20 years.