NSE 31A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Primary Healthcare, Intersectionality, Queer Theory
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Theory week 2: promoting community health health promotion & primary. Readings: chapter 5 & 6 stamler & yiu. Theory creates a foundation for practice by providing a lens that informs: the questions we ask the nursing strategies we use. How we interpret what we see, hear & experience. How we understand our own role as nurse. How we define the notion of client". How we develop relationships with individuals, families, communities, and other health and service workers. A critical lens guides chns to practice in a way that supports: Critical theories: focus on power differentials; challenge the status quo. *equal opportunities theory: e. g. feminist theory; anti-oppression theory; queer theory; post colonial. Intersectionality theory: recognizes that multiple, intersecting factors affect health and access to health. capacity: configuration of intersecting factors contributes to vulnerability as well as. Social ecological/socio-environmental theory: recognizes interplay between people & their environment *making environmental accessible for clients to have choice.
