NURS1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Global Citizenship, Secret Path, Nathan Astle
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Outline
• Discuss%
• global%citizenship%%
• cultural%safety%
• diversity%
• Watch%part%of%the%Secret%Path%(Downie,%2016)%
• Group%activity%(time%permitting)%
Global citizenship
• Refers%to%our%responsibilities%as%citizens%to%not%only%engage%in%our%
local,%national,%and%international%community,%but%to%act%upon%social%
injustices%and%inequities%(Oxfam,%1997%as%cited%in%Astle,%Barton,%Johnson%and%Mill,%2014,%p108)%
• Recognizes%interconnectedness%between%local%and%global%
• Encourages%individuals%to%take%action%to%improve%their%and%others%
sociocultural%environment%
• Nurses%have%a%longstanding%history%of%acting%as%global%citizens%to%
promote%social%justice%(e.g.,%Nightingale%intruding%nurses%into%
workhouse%infirmaries)%
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Document Summary
Outline: discuss, global citizenship, cultural safety, diversity, watch part of the secret path (downie, 2016, group activity (time permitting) 17-11-16 culture awareness culture sensitivity: being sensitive to those differences. Cultural diversity: in 2011, more than 200 ethnic origins reported, most common are english, french, scottish, irish, german, italian, chinese, Indigenous peoples and social justice: higher obesity (~26% vs 16%, food insecurity (14-28% vs 7. 5%, smoking (30-39% vs 15%, heavy drinking (26% vs 19%) Health disparities and inequities experienced by aboriginal peoples are rooted in racism and marginalization, dislocation, and social exclusion (national collaborating center for aboriginal health, 2017) We are not the country we thought we were. We are all accountable, but this begins in the late 1800s and goes to 1996. White canada knew on somebody"s purpose nothing about this. We weren"t taught it; it was hardly ever mentioned. Group activity: mary bassett (2015) says her biggest mistake at the beginning of the.
