Description
Focused on your beginning understanding of community nursing practice as evidenced in the documentary The American Nurse.
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Write a one page reflection on the nursing you observed in the film and your nursing. if you were the nurse in the various nursing situations.
See Grading Rubric: Use ways of knowing, Mayeroff's ingredients of caring, Roach’s 6 C’s, the College of Nursing Philosophy to guide refection.
Caring Prompt
Ways of Knowing
Focus on a nursing situations offered in the film that nurtured the nurses' and the clients' wholeness and well being.
What expressions of caring did you see in the film? Use Roaches or Mayeroffs caring concepts to describe the caring between the nurse and one nursed.
If you were the nurse what calls for nursing did you hear?
Ways of knowing; caring concepts
What would your creative responses have been?
Empirical Knowing; Caring Concepts
Who are you as caring person?
Personal Knowing
What knowledge was needed to care for the clients in the film? Empirical KnowingWhat ethical knowledge was needed to care for the clients in the film? Ethical Knowing; ANA Code for Nurses
What knowledge about the client's life was needed to care for the clients?
Sociopolitical Knowing:
What was the context of the persons' lives: family, housing, access to care, medications, food, work, children, school, responsibilities?
What knowledge was needed to understand the spiritual beliefs of the clients being cared for? informed or might have informed me?
Spiritual Knowing: supportive rituals, persons, prayers, music, healing practices?
What knowledge did you NOT know before caring for the clients? Unknowing Pattern of Knowing; humility, courageWhat Interprofessional Team Work did you see in the film? IEP StandardsWhat was the most prominent caring concept you observed in the film? Roach & Mayeroffs' ConceptsHow would you Re-present caring in the film in an aesthetic form? Aesthetic way of knowing: Poem, painting, dance, song, etc.
Format Based on the FAU College of Nursing Philosophy (2012) and Barry, Gordon King (2015) Case Studies Caring Across the Practice Spectrum. FA Davis.