Fiona Gold completed her RN diploma in 1989 and worked for 7 years in medicine, ob/gyne and palliative care at St. Pauls Hospital in Vancouver. She has also worked in rural health care settings in northern British Columbia and the Yukon since 1989.
For the past 11 years she has worked with the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Street Nurse Program in various capacities. From 2000 to 2003 she worked together with many other community members/activists to realize supervised injection sites in Vancouver, British Columbia. Recently Fiona coordinated the creation of Bevel Up, Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing (2007), a teaching tool to assist health care professionals in their work with people who use drugs (produced by the BC Centre for Disease Control’s Outreach Nursing Program together with the National Film Board and in collaboration with Canada Wild Productions).
For the last several years Fiona has also been part of the nursing staff at NAOMI (North American Opiate Maintenance Initiative). Her area of interest has been working with substance users and the role of the nursing voice to effect change.