PPN101 Week 1 Introduction to Nursing 2024 PDF

PPN 101: Professional Practice in Nursing Week One: Fall 2024  What is this course about? An exploration of self and the nursing profession in the context of health care An examination of the historical, cultural, political, economic and gendered context of n...

PPN 101: Professional Practice in Nursing Week One: Fall 2024  What is this course about? An exploration of self and the nursing profession in the context of health care An examination of the historical, cultural, political, economic and gendered context of nursing An introduction to the ethical and legal aspects of nursing An introduction to comprehensive understandings of the nursing profession and relational practice. Fall Week 1 2024  Course Learning Outcomes Relate the personal and professional self to the nurse’s role. Interpret the nursing process and nursing frameworks. Examine the ethical and legal obligations of the nurse. Critique the historical image of nursing. Explore the gendered, political and economic nature of nursing Understand the historical, societal and environmental context of Indigenous health in Canada Fall Week 1 2024  Important Resources & Information Syllabus - Textbooks and Electronic Resources / E-reserves - Methods of evaluation (breakdown next slide) - Turnitin - Learning resources - Class expectations - Rubrics Weekly planner Student handbook Fall Week 1 2024 4  Course evaluations Method Description Value Date Quiz # 1 Short answer questions 15% Week 5 Presentation Group Presentation 25% Week 8 Quiz # 2 Multiple choice 25% Week 9 Final Exam Multiple choice 35% Exam period Total 100%  Introduction to eCentennial Desire to Learn (D2L) What is D2L? How will we use it in PPN 101 What are your responsibilities? How do you access D2L? Fall Week 1 2024 6  Fall 2024 Classroom Learning Strategies Site specific strategies, guidelines and plans What worked for you in the past? Fall Week 1 2024  Communication Professor: Phone: Office Hours: Email: * Individual appointments available upon request via e-mail, zoom and/or phone Fall Week 1 2024 8  Getting Acquainted Fall Week 1 2024 9 Student & Instructor Expectations Fall Week 1 2024 10  Week One Objectives: 1. Become familiar with and learn how to use the Student Handbook and PPN101 Syllabus to enhance learning. 2. Introduce nursing as a profession. Week 1: Describe nursing professionalism. Introduction, 3. Discuss nurse pioneers and their history & diverse contributions to the images of profession of nursing. Nursing 4. Discuss public images and contemporary views of nursing and how they have been influenced by social, economic and political factors. 5. Identify strategies to support an accurate, positive and inclusive image of nursing as a professional Fall Week 1 2024 career.  Getting to know the Collaborative Student Handbook and Syllabus Go online (D2L) to retrieve the Handbook and Syllabus. Use both documents to answer the following questions: 1. What philosophical beliefs are foundational to the Collaborative Nursing Degree Program? (discussed in detail next week) 2. What are the curriculum content themes, years one to four? 3. What is Academic Integrity? What are some examples of academic misconduct? 4. Why are scholarly assignments important in a nursing program? 5. How would you describe a B+ paper submission? 6. What kind of learning resources are available to you at the University/College? Fall Week 1 2024 12  Nursing as a profession is: a practice discipline. a self-regulated profession. the maintenance of competencies such as knowledge and skills to guide evidence-informed decision making in practice accountable to the public through writing a licensing or registration exam upon graduation of the nursing program. guided by CNA and provincial and territorial regulatory code of ethics, nursing standards, best practice, research and laws and regulation that guide practice Mallette & Young, 2022, p. 7 Nursing Professionalism: Attributes ⮚ Knowledge ⮚ Accountability ⮚ Autonomy ⮚ Self-regulation ⮚ Inquiry ⮚ Collegiality ⮚ Collaboration ⮚ Innovation ⮚ Ethics ⮚ Values Mallette & Young, 2022, p. 7  When you think of nursing/nurses today, what do you think of? Fall Week 1 2024  Historical images of Nursing What do you notice in these images? Fall Week 1 2024  Why is it important to understand history when thinking about nursing today? Provides an informed and critical understanding of our society. Helps us understand the meaning of nursing and nursing experiences on a conceptual level. Facilitates a sharper reflection on the current system and who the stakeholders are. Influences current research about nursing as a discipline and profession. Teaches us about who we are, and where we are going. Potter & Perry, Fall Week 1 2024 2024, p. 34-35  Other important reasons to know about our nursing roots Helps to develop professional identity Promotes group cohesiveness and pride Offers us knowledge about practice relationships Can serve to challenge conventional wisdom Provides a better understanding of political, social and economic influences that affect the profession today. Contributes to the advancement of the nursing profession CNA: The Value of Nursing History Today, 2007 Fall Week 1 2024  Florence Nightingale In fact, she was much more!! Considered by many to be the first nursing researcher, epidemiologist Advocate for patients Believed nursing to be an art and science with its own knowledge base, distinct from medicine Scholar and theorist, well educated Innovator in care Developed an apprenticeship training model that solidified nursing as a respectable occupation for women. Florence Nightingale, 1820-  “The Angel of Mercy” Mid 1800s through World War I Nurses as noble, moral, religious, Red Cross, 1918 virginal and self-sacrificing Strongly tied to religion and religious images Florence Nightingale as the epitome of the angel of mercy Is this an accurate portrayal of Nightingale?  Indigenous caregivers Indigenous women healers played a vital role as nurses and midwives in settler societies. After confederation, the federal government aggressively pursued a policy of assimilation of Indigenous Peoples and eradication of their culture, including the suppression of healing knowledge and practice. Indigenous women were largely barred from entering nurse training schools until the 1930s. Wytenbroek, 2017 Fall Week 1 2024 Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture (1890-1996) First indigenous nurse Challenging career path Not accepted to nursing school in Ontario Accepted to nursing school in New York Joined the US Nurse Corps during WW1 Following WW1 she returned to Canada to join the 6 Nations Reserve and worked as a nurse and midwife Mallette & Yonge, 2022, p. 2  Harriet Tubman, Mary Eliza Mahoney & Lillian Holland Harvey Dared to break through cultural norms to offer care to their communities Did not let the sentiments of their time prevent them from improving the lives of those around them, but also the profession of nursing as a whole. Championed the rights of all people Showed grit, integrity and perseverance to earn the same qualifications and positions as their non- black colleagues Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845- 1926) Lillian Holland Harvey (1912-1994) https://www.registerednursing.org/articles/african-american-nurses-making-history/  Bernice Redmon (1917-1993) Was not able to attend nursing school in Canada in the 1940’s Went to Virginia to obtain her nursing diploma in 1945 After graduation she returned to Canada to practice Public Health Nursing in Nova Scotia First black nurse to be appointed the Victoria Order of Nurses in Canada As a result of increasing pressure on nursing schools in Canada to admit black women Mallette & Yonge, 2022, p. 2 https://museumofhealthcare.blog/black-history-month- bernice-redmon/  The First Black Nurses to Graduate from a Nursing Program in Canada 1948 https://twitter.com/malindasmith/status/ Mallette & Yonge, 2022,  Provides knowledge of nursing history that can assist with socializing new nurses’ into the profession Encourages critical thinking among Canadian nurses Shares in the responsibility (with all Nurses’ nurses) to integrate nursing history into nursing education and Association professional awareness Actively supports nursing historical (CNA) and research Nursing Nursing In Canada CNA 1908-2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYa5 History K4lxrko https://www.cna-aiic.ca/en/membership/ who-we-are/our-history How have your ideas about nursing been shaped by history and/or the media? ???????? Fall Week 1 2024  Why does IMAGE matter? Symbiotic relationship between professional image and socio-political- economic contexts Stereotypes are pervasive and can influence professional image and credibility Professional image plays a role in attracting and socializing new nurses into the profession More pressure on nursing  What shapes our IMAGE? Media Public perceptions History Nursing perceptions News reports (strikes, Personal / lived Nurse pioneers, Nursing Associations shortages, spotlights experiences etc) scholars and trail Educational Nursing as a career blazers Institutions TV/movie portrayals choice Advertisements about nursing Fall Week 1 2024 Price et al., 2014 Nursing images in the media  The Mother, the Sex Symbol and the Careerist The Mother: 1945-1965 - After the war, return to ‘family’ values The Sex Symbol: Post mid 1960s - Sensual, romantic, irresponsible, promiscuous with little evidence of intelligence or skill; M*A*S*H The Careerist: Current - Intelligent, logical, progressive, empathetic, sophisticated and assertive; less gender role identity.  Videos: Nursing images today Images of nursing: Just a nurse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jds1AlKzVGg I Am Your Nurse https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=gjn gcRhe6b4&feature=emb_logo NURSE TV featurette (2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OkBPbKNlYg&feature= related Be A Nurse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xf5Vi3k78 If Florence Could See Us Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGZgUYTx-58&feature IMAGES OF MALE NURSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=F S zoeDBR_VoE&feature=emb_logo Fall Week 1 2024  This narrative research explored The history career choices among the of nurse Millennial generation of nurses (1980-2000). imagery Findings identified that and the historical images of nursing can provide both a source of implications inspiration and dissonance. for Virtue scripts in imaging of recruitment nurses (as kind, compassionate) can trivialize the complex and knowledgeable work that nurses (Price et al., 2014) do. Historical imaging Nurses being portrayed as heroes, harlots, harridans and handmaidens. Positive images of nurses portrayed during times of war (heroic profession, but still pure and maternal). Remains trend towards emphasizing nursing as ‘life or death’ in media and ‘virtuous hero as victim’ Historical Virtuous imaging nursing Label of ‘angel’ implies possession of innate virtues like caring, compassion and comfort images Reinforces nursing as a vocational calling with self- sacrifice for the good of others Hardship endured by nurses have historically been positioned as part of the nobility of the profession. (Price et al., 2014) Moral depictions Nurses as sexual objects permeates images today. ‘Good’ nurse is often predicated on possession of personal virtues rather than academic aptitude or intelligence. Fall Week 1 2024  Ensure that nursing images and language emphasize nurses’ Implications knowledge and skill : Future Link potential recruits to practicing nurses in diverse strategies settings. to shift the Promote inclusive, positive image of images of nursing Promote the ‘careerist’ nurse as a nursing realistic reflection of today‘s nurse and an image to be proud (Price et al. , 2014) of.  Other strategies 1. Emphasize nursing’s unique body of knowledge defined through research. 2. Critically analyze the media and the portrayal of nurses – get involved! 3. Make it your responsibility to uphold positive images of nursing Fall Week 1 2024 What is your ideal image of nursing?  Findings from this recent study indicated that critical care nurses did not perceive angel Fallen and hero labels positively during the pandemic. angels and Nurses stated concerns about forgotten unrealistic expectations, safety heroes risks, and poor renumeration for their service to and care of others. (Stokes-Parish et al., Importantly they called for 2022) improved representations of their role, recognition and work conditions. 1) History Repeating: The term ‘angel’ reinforced historical, religious origins of nursing. Images of nurses during 2) Gender Stereotypes: Media the pandemic: representations perpetuated nursing care as ‘women’s work’. Four themes 3) Political Pawns: Nurses as ‘heroes and (Stokes-Parish et al., angels’ benefitted politicians’ agendas. 2022) 4) Forgotten Heroes: Nurses felt respect dwindled to such a point that they were Fall Week 1 2024 villainized. Pictures to reflect on… Stokes Parish et al., 2022, p. 3 Next Week 2: Program week Philosophies & Personal and Professional Values