Week 1 Review: Mulitple Ways of Knowing

Question 1

Why should you learn nursing history

Answer 1

Learning from those lessons of the past are critical in advacing the profession.

Question 2

Nursing Evolution

Answer 2

• Urbanization/immigration
• developements in science/research
• Early nursing was relgious and ran by churches
• Indiegious populations: Health knowlege,remidies

Question 3

Florance Nightingale

Answer 3

Founder of modern, professional nursing
 Rallied against customs that did not allow upper and
middle class women to work (against her family
wishes); characterizing nursing as suitable for those
with a high moral calling (sobriety, chastity, loyalty,
altruism, self-sacrifice)
 Cared for wounded soldiers in Crimean War
 Dramatically decreased mortality and morbidity rates
with simple nursing care
 Elevated status of nursing World War
 First nurse statistician
 Applied principles of cleanliness and comfort

Question 4

Indian Hospitals

Answer 4

Racial segregation and colonial practices
negatively influenced Indigenous individuals,
families, and communities
 During this period, federal government offered
Indigenous peoples a health care service that was
separate from the one available to the non-
Indigenous population
 Indian hospitals were chronically underfunded,
overcrowded, and understaffed.

Question 5

History of education

Answer 5

• First nursing schools were hospital schools were students provided nursing care in exchange for living arrangements.
• Poor conditions
• Diploma schools ( 1874) role was to be faithful to doctors, basic requirements
• Educational reform: Mother of Nurses In Canada ( provided circulum and good living condi)

Question 6

Racism In Nursing

Answer 6

• Nursing was initially single white women allowed
• Segretation
• ## TRC Call to Actions

Question 7

Univeristy programs

Answer 7

• 1919: first undergraduate program established
• One year study and training
• Non intergrated: university assumed no responsibility for 2/3 years of prep at hosptal
• 1959: First Masters of Nursing Program was established
• 1975: bacculate entry to pratice
• 1991 First doctoral program

Question 8

Education today

Answer 8

• new
• Increased acess
• Accelreated
• Education standrads provided via provinces
• Ensure change and lifelong learning

Question 9

Carpers Professional Ways of knowing

Answer 9

1. Empircal
2. Personal
3. Ethical
4. Aestheic

Question 10

Emprical Knowing

Answer 10

• Knowlege that nurse applies to nursing pratice that comes from key and theory from research. As findings broaden so does skill set
• ” **A patient comes into the
  clinic with a fever and sore throat. The nurse
  takes their temperature and it reads 38.5°C.
  Based on knowledge of infections and high
  temperature, the nurse suspects that the patient
  might have some infections and decides to
  take detail history and physical examination.” **

Question 11

Aesthetic Knowing

Answer 11

• Using nurse personality , creativity, and approach to relationships
• Unique to indivdual
• Compassion, feelings

Question 12

Personal Knowing

Answer 12

• Reflect on knowledge that nurses bring into nursing , knowledge from life expereince in lives
• Created by: lived expereince, movements, emotions, values, interactions
• “An elderly patient expresses a desire to leave the hospital
  without complete treatment, but the healthcare team
  determines it’s unsafe. The nurse is conflicted between
  respecting the patient’s autonomy and protecting them from
  harm. After careful reflection, the nurse gently explains the
  situation to the patient, informs them the options while ensuring
  their comfort and dignity, balancing the ethical responsibility
  of care with respect for the patient’s wishes”

Question 13

Ethical Knowing

Answer 13

• Shaped via nurses values, beleifs
• Values ( have significance to nurse)
• Pratice standards include: code of ethics, nursing pratice standards, entry to pratice comptenices, social contact, interprofessional compencies