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Lecture 2 - Nursing Professionalism Flashcards

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What is Global Health?

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  • The optimal well-being of all humans from the individual and collective perspective
  • Prevention, treatment, and care
  • Improvement of health for all
  • Health equity
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Inequality VS Inequity

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Health Inequality

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  • Imbalance
  • Unequal
  • difference in health experiences or outcomes between different populations
  • Ex: Life expectancy, mortality, or disease
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Health Inequity

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  • differences in health experiences/outcomes that are because of disadvantages
  • Unfair
  • Unjust
  • Ex: Clients living with diabetes in Far Northern Sask
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Global Citizenship

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  • Engage in local, nat’l and int’l community
  • Act upon social injustices
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International Council of Nursing (ICN)

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  • Look @ trends –> Current –> Future
  • Look @ policy
  • Nursing Education
  • Modernization/ advancement of profession
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ICN Mission

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To represent nursing worldwide, advancing the profession and influencing health policy.

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What are the 3 Pillars of ICN

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  1. Professional Practice
  2. Regulation
  3. Socio-economic welfare
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Who’s the Pappa of Universal Healthcare?

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Tommy D.

Tommy Douglas

Thomas Douglas

Thomas Clement Douglas

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5 Areas of Canada Health Act

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  1. Public administration
  2. Comprehensiveness
  3. Universality
  4. Portability
  5. Accessibility
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Provisions of Canada Health Act

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  • extra billing must be clearly outlined/ defined
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National Expert Commission

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  • Independent
  • Recommend to optimize nursing contributions
  • Position CNA in Nat’l discussion about future of healthcare
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Findings of National Expert Commission

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  • population diverse
  • living longer with chronic conditions
  • need for safety in healthcare
  • Canada’s system = 6th most expensive, BUT health status decreasing
  • Have REACTIVE system
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Prov/Terr Healthcare Responsibilities

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  • Develop/ administer own healthcare insurance plans
  • Manage, finance, plan, and deliver services MUST BE in alignment with CHA principles
  • organization/ location of hospitals/ long-term care facilities; mix of health providers; and amount of money dedicated to services
  • Reimburse physician and hospital costs; some rehabilitation/ long-term care services (usually co-payments with users)
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Romanow Commission

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  • Medicare = sustainable + needs preservation
  • Medicare = Core value of Canadians
  • new diagnostic service fund
  • Build info tech infrastructure
  • improve access
  • Ensure quality
  • Improve/expand PHC
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The Kirby poo poo Report

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  • Medicare NOT sustainable
  • Need private sector
  • $ from hospitals to service-based model
  • Increase Regional health authority responsibilities
  • REFORM PHC
  • Offering health care guarantee to Canadians
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SRNA

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  • professional self-regulatory body
  • RN’s and RNP’s
  • RUN BY RN’s
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Registered Nurses Act

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  • SRNA’s mandate
  • setting standards of education and practice
  • ensure competent, caring knowledge-based registered nursing for Sask
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What is SRNA responsible for? (5)

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  1. continued competence
  2. professional conduct
  3. Std’s of practice
  4. code of ethics
  5. approval of education programs
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SUN

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  • enhance social, economic and general well being of nurses
  • protect
  • bargain
  • ensure fair treatment in workplace
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Canadian Nursing Students’ Assoc. (CNSA)

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  • Voice for students
  • increase the legal, ethical, professional, and educational aspects
  • Primary resource for students
  • advance innovation in nursing curriculum and research
  • Strengthen linkages and create new partnerships.
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2 major problems in Canadian healthcare…

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  1. Aging population
  2. Population growth
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Primary Health Care (PHC)

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  • preventing illness and promoting health
  • Adopted by WHO and Canada
  • key to healthy society
    • Promotive, preventative, curative, rehabilitative, palliative, and supportive
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What are the 5 Principles of PHC

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  1. Accessibility
  2. Public Participation
  3. Health Promotion
  4. Appropriate Technology
  5. Intersectoral Cooperation
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4 Pillars of PHC

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  1. Teams
  2. Access (right care @ right time)
  3. Info (b/w Pt and Healthcare team)
  4. Health Living (prevention, self-care, empowerment)
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RN’s 5 domains of practice

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  1. Clinical care
  2. education
  3. Admin
  4. Research
  5. Policy
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What officially outlines the scope of practice for Nurses?

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The Registered Nurses Act

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