Class 20: Emancipatory Knowing and Social Justice Quiz

Emancipatory Knowing and Social Justice

• Emancipatory knowing is the ability to acknowledge social and political injustice or inequity, and to change a situation to improve people's lives.
• It involves all 5 patterns of knowing: Ethics, Empirical, Aesthetic, Personal, and community with other nurses.
• PEACE model is a framework for emancipatory knowing, which stands for:
  • Praxis: utilizing nursing science to guide actions
  • Empowerment: encouraging independence and autonomy
  • Awareness: giving choice and acknowledging power differentials
  • Cooperation: working with the whole team, including patients, families, and communities
  • Evolvement: staying curious and humble

Types of Power

• Knowledge: Empirical and Ethical knowledge
• Liberation: Using power for good
• Awareness: Using our power properly
• Cooperation: Sharing power, especially in life or death decisions

Bearing Witness and Nursing Activism

• Bearing witness is a method of caring and validating another's experience
• It involves a responsibility to respond in the face of injustice
• Nursing activism involves challenging the system, acknowledging structural determinants of health, and promoting equality and diversity

Neutrality

• Acknowledge the beaver in the room (hidden power dynamics)
• Navigate tensions between individual and public policy/structure
• Engage moral compass and moral courage
• Wade into vulnerability and discomfort

Nursing History

Canadian Nurses Association

• RNs work in primary care teams as partners with physicians and other health care professionals
• RNs take a comprehensive, holistic approach to healthcare

Historical Figure: Rufaida bint Saad Al-Aslameya

• Born 620 AD
• Ethicist and healer
• First nurse in Islamic history
• Set up a tent outside the Prophet's mosque to provide care

Florence Nightingale

• Born May 12, 1820
• Statistician, epidemiologist, critical thinker, and environmentalist
• Advocate for healthcare reform, promoting hygiene, fresh air, and exercise
• Modern Day Nursing impetus

Sojourner Truth

• Born into slavery in 1791
• Evangelist, abolitionist, and advocate for women's rights and healthcare reform
• Campaigner for formal nursing education

Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture

• First Indigenous woman to vote
• First Indigenous nurse in Canada
• Graduated from New York State in 1914
• Worked as a nurse and midwife in her community

Bernice Redmon

• First black nurse to get a Diploma in Canada
• Graduated from St. Phillip Hospital in 1945
• Pursued a public health certificate in Virginia, USA
• Public health RN in Nova Scotia

Rosemarie Riddell

• Gay activist for over 30 years
• Changed policy for Gay patients and HIV patients
• Worked in a special addiction team at St. Paul's
• Advocated for a humanistic and holistic approach

Religious Influences in Canada

• Advantages: Created hospitals, schools of nursing, and healthcare structures
• Challenges: Religious constraints, men were not allowed to participate in nursing education