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Community as Partner
Community as Partner might as well be known as a course in Social Justice Nursing* for it is rooted in principles of fairness, dignity, and justice. Its ethos is empowerment: where empowerment is both the means and the ends of the desired impact a community health nurse strives to have.
Community as Partner was one of the inaugural courses developed for York University's new BScN, in 1999. Adapting and responding to societal and professional trends and issues Community as Partner remains one of the program's most influential learning experiences.
Student nurses learn to:
1. Demonstrate understanding of the philosophical and historical basis of community health nursing praxis.
2. Demonstrate knowledge in the philosophy and skills in the process of partnering with the community.
3. Integrate knowledge from nursing, health promotion, and other disciplines into practice.
4. Develop community assessment, consultation, and health promotion skills.
5. Analyze ethical/legal issues and professional trends in community health nursing.
6. Exemplify professional responsibility & accountability in classroom and practicum settings.
NB. Within these broad course goals students must demonstrate achievement of an understanding of the CHNAC Standards of Practice and achieve the relevant and most recent CNO entry to practice competencies associated with Canadian Community Health Nursing.
Canada's Standards of Practice for Community Health Nurses guides the work of the students, and equips their clinical teachers with a lens and a blueprint to assist students to reach far past what they ever imagined nursing was/could be.
Course Themes: Community as Partner
Health
Quality of Life
Community
People Centredness
Partnership, Relationship, Community Development/Organizing
Upstream Thinking, Choice, Victim-Blaming
Health Promotion, Population Health, Primary Health
Social Determinants of Health
Advocacy, Social Justice
Activism as Ethical Nursing Practice
Power, Marginalization, Disenfranchisement, The Personal is Political
Strength Seeking/Capacity Building/Empowerment
Critical Caring
Competence
van Daalen-Smith, C. (2001)
Common Resources Include:
CNO (most recent) Entry to Practice Competencies for Registered Nurses.
CNA (most recent). Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses.
Community Health Nurses Association of Canada. (Most recent). Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice. (See Appendices in Course Text)
WHO. (1978). Alma Ata Declaration.
WHO. (1986). Ottawa Charter.
WHO. (1997). Jakarta Declaration.
TCHC. (2002). Strengthening the social determinants of health: The Toronto Charter for a Healthy Canada.
* van Daalen-Smith (2005)
Community as Partner was one of the inaugural courses developed for York University's new BScN, in 1999. Adapting and responding to societal and professional trends and issues, Community as Partner remains one of the program's most influential learning experiences.
