Nursing 1160A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Active Listening, Augmentative And Alternative Communication, Physical Geography

• School: Western University
• Department: Nursing
• Course: Nursing 1160A/B
• Professor: Karen Ferguson

Document Summary

Overview and introduction to thinking and acting like a nurse. These are a few of the key questions that you have explored with co-learners in the first term. The responses to such questions required reflection on the history of the profession along with growing personal awareness of the varied roles nurses engage in with clients on a local, national, and global scale. In term i, we also explored and examined the patterns of knowing (ethical, empirics, aesthetics, personal, and emancipatory) in the context of the nursing metaparadigm. As a result of this experience, perspectives can change, values become clearer, the story of the client becomes central, and the meaning underpinning the decisions and actions of a professional nurse come into a clearer focus. This term we are going to examine what it means to think and act like a nurse. Review perspectives about patterns of knowing, personal awareness of self, the history of the profession and its future.