Test Bank For Realities of Canadian Nursing Professional, Practice, and Power Issues 5th Edition Carol McDonald PhD, RN, Marjorie McIntyre RN, PhD

 

Realities of Canadian Nursing explores the most important and timely professional, legal, ethical, political, social, economic, and environmental issues today

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

About the Authors

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

Part 1 Nurses, Nursing, and the Healthcare System

Chapter 1 Nursing Issues: A Call to Political Action

Significance for Nurses

Significance for the Profession

Nursing Practice as Political Action

Framing the Topic

Analyzing the Issue

Barriers to Resolution

Devising Strategies for Resolution

Lobbying Strategies

Summary

Chapter 2 Race and Racialization in Health, Healthcare, and Nursing Education

Race and Racialization

Health, Healthcare, and Racism

The Cycle of Oppression: Understanding How Racism Operates

Racism, White Privilege, and Nursing Education

Racism and White Privilege in Nursing Education

Strategies for Personal and Social Change

Summary

Chapter 3 Homelessness as a Health Equity and Social Justice Concern in Nursing

Significance for Nursing

Framing the Issue

Historical Analysis

Barriers to Resolution

Devising Strategies for Resolution

Chapter 4 Inviting Compassionate Conversations About End of Life: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada

Framing the Topic: MAiD as an Option at End of Life

Palliative Care (PC) and a Palliative Approach

End-of-Life Care

Medically Assisted Dying

Significance for the Profession: Uncertainty and Opportunity for Nursing

Analyzing the Issue of Medical Assistance in Dying

Going Forward: Strategies for a Nursing Voice

Summary

Chapter 5 The Legacy of Colonization for the Health and Well-being of Indigenous People: Toward Reconciliation

Diversity of the First Peoples

Non-Indigenous (Settler) Responsibilities Toward Reconciliation

European Settler Relationship With Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Cultural Resurgence of Indigenous Peoples and Community Development

Indigenous Health and Well-being: Miyupimaatissiium: Being Alive Well

The Establishment of Government Healthcare in Northern and Isolated Communities

Barriers to Indigenous Health and Well-being

Self-determination and Reconciliation

Summary

Part 2 Influence of Organizational Structures and Regulation

Chapter 6 Canadian Healthcare

The Importance of Understanding Canada’s Healthcare “System”

The Canada Health Act

So What Does This Mean?

What Lies Ahead?

Nurses Leading to Influence Change

Summary

Chapter 7 Canadian Nurses Association and International Council of Nurses

Canadian Nurses Association: The National Voice of Nurses in Canada Since 1908

The International Council of Nurses

Summary

Chapter 8 Canadian Provincial and Territorial Nursing Organizations

Historical Perspective

Postcolonial Lens on Nursing Organizations

Critical Feminist Lens

Summary

Chapter 9 Canadian Federation of Nurses’ Unions: Standing for Workplace Safety

Historical Influences

Organizing Practices of Professional Nurses

Emergence of Union Practices

Transformations in Healthcare

Transformations in Unions

CNA Influences on the Move to Unionization

Changes in Nurses’ Thinking About Collective Bargaining

The Gendered Nature of Issues Surrounding Collective Bargaining

Nurses’ Workplaces

Collective Bargaining

Unions Today and Tomorrow

Nurses’ Unions and Political Action

Bringing Research to Action

Summary

Part 3 Issues Related to Knowledge Generation and Dissemination

Chapter 10 Challenges and Change in Undergraduate Nursing Education

Framing the Topic

Analyzing the Issues

Barriers and Strategies: Issues in Perspective

Summary

Chapter 11 Graduate Education

History of Graduate Nursing Education in Canada

Practice Realities and Challenges for Graduate-Prepared Nurses

Issues and Controversies in Graduate Education

Challenges for Graduate-Prepared Nurses

Strategies for Advancing Graduate Education

Summary

Chapter 12 The Political Nature of Knowledge Generation and Utilization: Nursing Research in Canada

Situating the Topic

Articulating the Topic as an Issue

Analyzing the Issue: Ways of Understanding

Political Analysis of the Issue

Critical Postcolonial Analysis of the Issue

Strategies to Address Issues of Nursing Research

Summary

Chapter 13 Nursing Informatics: A Growing Field of Science and Practice

What Really Is Nursing Informatics All About?

Health Informatics and Health Information Systems

Clinical Information Systems and the Electronic Health Record

The Current State of Nursing Documentation

The Way Forward

Chapter 14 Influencing Policy and Leading Change: Essential Steps in Successful Transformations

Policy, Politics, and Professionalism

History and Background: Perspectives on Policy

Influencing Policy

Keys to Success

Summary

Part 4 Workplace Realities

Chapter 15 Issues in Contemporary Nursing Leadership

Complexity Theory and Leadership

Situating the Topic: The Nature of the Issue

Articulating the Issue

Barriers to Addressing the Issue

Strategies for Addressing the Issue

Summary

Chapter 16 The Gendered Nature of Nursing

Articulating the Issue for Nursing

Analyzing the Issue

Barriers to and Strategies for Issue Resolution

Summary

Chapter 17 Issues in Interprofessional Practice

Introduction

Significance for Nurses and for the Profession

Situating the Topic and Framing the Issue

(Further) Analyzing the Issue

Recognizing Barriers, Devising Strategies: Creating Possibilities Within Constraints

Summary

Chapter 18 Issues Arising From the Nature of Nurses’ Work and Work Environments

The Nature of Nurses’ Work

The Significance of Nurses’ Work Issues

Issues Arising in Nurses’ Work and Work Environments

Barriers to Resolving Work and Workplace Issues

Strategies for Resolving Work and Workplace Issues

Summary

Chapter 19 The Nursing Shortage: Assumptions and Realities

Nature of the Nursing Shortage

Framing and Analyzing the Issues

Barriers to Resolution of the Nursing Shortage

Strategies for Resolution

Summary

Chapter 20 Rural Nursing in Canada: Issues of Access

Issues of Access and Primary Healthcare

How Do These Issues of Access Relate to Rural Health and to Rural Nursing?

Rural Nurses’ Access Issues Part 1: Access to Health Services

Resolution: Constraints and Possibilities

Rural Nurses’ Access Issues Part 2: Access to the Resources Needed for Health

Resolution: Constraints and Possibilities

Summary

Chapter 21 Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing

Situating the Topic: What Is Ethics?

Articulating the Issue

Analyzing Issues: Ways of Understanding

Barriers to Resolving Ethical Dilemmas

Strategies for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas

Summary

Part 5 Societal Realities

Chapter 22 Issues in Healthcare for an Aging Population

Introduction

Situating the Topic

Framing the Issue

Appreciating Diversity in Aging and Health

Healthy Aging

Barriers to Healthy Aging

Strategies for Resolution

Summary

Chapter 23 Orientating to Difference: Beyond Heteronormative Sexualities

Beyond Heteronormative Sexualities: Articulating the Topic for Nursing

Articulating the Topic as an Issue

Analyzing the Issue: Ways of Understanding

Barriers to Resolution

Strategies for Resolution

Summary

Chapter 24 Environment: An Issue for Nurses

Historical Links Between Environment and Health

Current Environmental Issues: Climate Change and Global Warming

Environmental Health Hazards

Sociopolitical Analysis

Strategies to Overcome Barriers

Summary

Chapter 25 Interpersonal Violence and Abuse: Ending the Silence

The Many Forms of Interpersonal Violence

Historical Perspectives on Violence and Abuse

Statistics in the Canadian Context

Understanding Violence: Theoretical Perspectives

Impact on Health and the Healthcare System

Issues for Nurses and the Nursing Profession

Approaches to Practice

Barriers to Resolution

Strategies for Resolution

Summary

Chapter 26 Onward to 2030: Nursing’s Momentum for Global Health Equity

The Promise of Nursing in the 21st Century

Persistence and Tension: Themes in Nursing’s Transformation

Summary

Index