Social Context of Nursing Flashcards
Social factors influencing the development of professional nursing are:
Gender
The image of nursing
National population trends
Technology
The shortage of nurses
what is AAMN?
American Association for Men in Nursing was organized to address, discuss, and influence factors affecting men in nursing
Goals of the AAMN
-Encourage men of all ages to become nurses and join in strengthening and humanizing health care for Americans.
-Encourage men who are nurses to grow professionally and demonstrate to each other and to society the increasing contributions being made by men in the nursing profession.
-Support members’ full participation in the nursing profession and its organizations and use this Assembly for the limited objectives stated earlier
social change in the 1960s has profound effect on society
-Nursing faced more competition for students than before because of the heightened interest in other careers by young women
-Women began to recognize they had career opportunities beyond the traditional and stereotypical “female” ones
how did nursing benefit women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s?
-As nursing students were increasingly educated in colleges and universities, they were exposed to campus activism, protests, and organizations committed to improving the status of women
-Learning about influence and power helped them use this knowledge to improve the status of nursing.
What factors influence the image of nursing?
-internet and media portrayal
-identify symbols: Identification badges carry titles but may be difficult to read.
-manner of addressing: Nurses in most agencies refer to themselves by first name.
What are the purpose and findings of the Woodhull Study and the Johnson and Johnson Campaign?
designed to survey and analyze the portrayal of health care and nursing in U.S. newspapers, news magazines, and healthcare industry trade publications.
The Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media
-comprehensive study of nursing by University of Rochester (New York) School of Nursing (URSN) in the print media (September, 1997)
-named after Nancy Woodhull, a founding editor of USA Today, who suggested the survey after she became concerned about the absence of media attention to nurses and nursing.
-key finding was that “Nurses and the nursing profession are essentially invisible to the media and, consequently, to the American public”
Johnson & Johnson Campaign
The Campaign for Nursing’s Future (2002) “to enhance the image of the nursing profession, recruit new nurses and educators, and to retain nurses currently in the system”
What is the Truth about Nursing?
nonprofit organization
-Mission: To “increase public understanding of the central, front-line role nurses play in modern health care”
-promote more accurate, balanced and frequent media portrayals of nurses and increase the media’s use of nurses as expert sources
Checklist for Monitoring Images of Nurses and Nursing in the Media
Prominence in the Plot
Demographic Characteristics
Personality Traits
Primary Values
Sexual Objectification of Nurses
Role of the Nurse
Career Orientation
Professional Competence
Education
Nursing Administration
How have professional nurses responded to social changes?
Aging Population: It is likely to have a profound effect on the healthcare system and nursing, stretching an already challenged capacity to provide adequate medical and nursing care.
Increasing Diversity: Nursing must change to meet the requirements of persons of varying ethnicities and cultural responses to health and illness
What are the technological developments in different domains of health care?
-Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics
-Biomedical Technologies
-Information Technologies
-Knowledge Technology
-Simulation
-Other Advancements: telehealth, telemetry
What are the various causes and solutions for nurse shortages?
-internal: Inadequate pay, Long hours, Increased responsibility for unlicensed workers, Significant responsibility with little authority
-external: Changes in demand for nursing services, Increasing age of the American population, Greater acuity (degree of illness) of hospitalized individuals, Public perceptions of nursing as a profession
What initiatives have impacted the stability of the nursing force?
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Corporate support of nursing
The ANCC Magnet Recognition Program
