NURSESPEAK 101

NURSESPEAK 101

1. Nursing ethics: How broad societal issues affect health and well-being

2. Collaborative Nursing Process: Sharing power, Being open and respectful, Being nonjudgemental and accepting, Being self-aware and reflective, Living with ambiguity

3. Collaborative Practive: Working with people within our profession, outside our profession, and with clients and families

4. Professional Boundaries:

   • Social media, gifts, therapeutic use of self, role of the nurse, self-disclosure, romantic relationships - are NEVER consensual*

5. Collaborative Partnership: pursuit of a client-centred goals through a dynamic process that requires active participation and agreement of all

6. Professional Values: Aesthetics, altruism, equality, freedom, human dignity, justice, truth

7. Canadian Nurse's Association

   • Advance nursing excellence and positive health outcomes in the public interest
   • Promote profession-led regulation in the public interest
   • Act in the public interest for Canadian nursing/nurses, providing national and international leadership in nursing and health
   • Advocate in the public interest for a publicly funded, not for profit h.c. system

8. Carna

   • Sets and maintains professional standards of practice
   • Communicates these standards to the public and stakeholders in the H.C system
   • Appraises the competence, continuing competence, and professionalism in its members through registration, the continuing competence program, and disciplinary processes

9. Scope of practice

   • Interventions that registered nurses are authorized, educated, and competent to perform

10. Ethical or Moral distress

    • When nurses are unable to act according to their moral judgement - legislation or limitations make them unable to pursue their view of the right course of action
    • Can lead to negative feelings such as anger, frustration, etc.
    • Positive: lead to self-reflection, advocacy, and growth

11. Role Socialization