Olga Nikolajev

Olga Nikolajev is an End of Life Nurse educator, a dying well advocate, cannabis educator and end of Life Doula mentor with over 25 years of professional experience as a registered nurse in various health care settings, including hospice palliative care. Olga has been involved in national, provincial and local community efforts to shift the way we view and approach our dying experience, death and grief, including how we care for each other at the end of life. Since 2017 has facilitated on-line Thanatology program courses through Centennial College, and in 2018 started facilitating the End of Life Doula course through Douglas College across Canada. Olga is the founder and director of DyingMatters.ca a death awareness and educational social enterprise and is the founder and director of the Death Doula Ontario Network which she founded in June 2020. Olga also serves as an advisor on a number of International, National and local committees and boards. Over the past five years Olga has been honoured to share her end of life knowledge with over 700 participants/students and is most proud of creating a “safe space” for personal stories exploring our struggles with grief and end of life care.