CNUR 830 Week 1-5 Organizer - Summary (Nursing Issues/Canadian Health Care system )

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CNUR 830 Week 1-5 Organizer - Summary (Nursing Issues/Canadian Health Care system ) Nursing Issues/Canadian Health Care system – Chapters 1 and 6 Organizer Objectives Recognize the history in our... current challenges in healthcare • Understand the system’s impact on Canadian nursing • Recognize the need for nursing leadership • Identify future possibilities for nurses in the healthcare system • Distinguish between problem solving and a process of issue articulation and resolution • Use a framework for the articulation and analysis of an issue Chapter 1 - Nursing issues: A call to political action… Significance for nurses… Significance for the profession… Nursing practice as a political action… To articulate an issue fully means to consider the political, historical, social and economic context in and through which issues are constructed - Example nursing shortage Nurses must include the organization of nurses and their ideas into a larger collective To speak in unison on issues along with organizing themselves to act provincially, territorially, nationally, and internationally The raison d’etre (most important reason) of nursing is healthcare QL of healthcare depends to a large extent on the nature of nursing component determined by 4 elements: - Standards of education and preparation for those entering the profession - Quality of care provided by the practitioner - Number of nurses available - Milieu in which care is offered Deductive thinking: application of general rules and laws to a specific concrete situation in nursing practice (doesn’t consider complex nature of situations) Shifting towards inductive thinking which takes into consideration the particularities of the context from local to global specific details of situations In recent yrs., there has been an increased focused on nurses’ advocacy Concurrent with their increasing social consciousness, nurse leaders experience an awareness of the limitations of approaching complex social-political issues with short-term approaches to change [Show More]

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