Nursing 2220A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Needle Exchange Programme, Frankfurt School, Genogram

• School: Western University
• Department: Nursing
• Course: Nursing 2220A/B
• Professor: marilyn Evans

Document Summary

Nurses" ways of knowing: use of assessment tools. The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health is a definition of what concept: health promotion, social change, social justice, equity. Emily is a community health nurse that needs to address the underlying power differentials and social inequities at a meat packing plant that hires a large portion of immigrant people. Which type of theory should emily consider using to guide her practice?". An important philosophical value in community health nursing is to promote the common good. This means that: decisions are made based on shared human interests. B: the few people who have specialized knowledge should make. Interests of the individual needs to be a priority decisions for all: the person who is most at risk needs to be in control. Ways of knowing: what ways of knowing are apparent in assessment of family and community, empirical, ethical, aesthetic, personal, emancipatory (chinn & kramer, 2011)