BScN 1101 Week 1 Study Notes: Nursing Pillars, Roles, and Resilience

Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering the core foundational concepts, four program pillars, CNO nursing roles, history timeline, and the resilience model from BScN 1101 Week 1 study notes.

Relational Practice

Respectful, compassionate, genuinely interested engagement with another person's experience and your own experience (Hartrick Doane, 2002).

Relational Inquiry

Skilled, carefully reasoned nursing action drawing on five elements: a relational orientation; a thorough knowledge base; inquiry, observation, and analytical skills; strong clinical skills; and particular ways of being.

Relational Orientation

A way of directing attention to what is happening within people, between people, and around them to view clinical situations broadly.

Inquiring Action

Continually investigating what is happening, what might be shaping it, what knowledge is missing, and what nursing response is most appropriate.

Intrapersonal Level

The level of relational inquiry that considers what is occurring within a person, including thoughts, emotions, beliefs, assumptions, goals, and experiences.

Interpersonal Level

The level of relational inquiry that examines interactions between people, including communication, trust, tension, power, support, and mutual responses.

Contextual Level

The level of relational inquiry that analyzes surrounding conditions such as staffing, institutional policies, physical environment, resources, income, culture, history, and sociopolitical forces.

A Nursing Standpoint

A perspective that keeps nursing's distinct contribution and obligations in view by directing attention to a person's broader health experience, well-being, dignity, relationships, and meaningful living alongside disease treatment.

Reference Points

Values, assumptions, past experiences, and familiar frameworks that influence what a nurse notices and considers important, which can act as automatic cognitive shortcuts.

Choice Architecture

The structural way in which an individual's reference points frame the options they perceive as available or reasonable in clinical practice.

Innovation

Creative and critical thinking that generates new or unconventional ideas to address health care challenges.

Digital Fluency

The ability to use and adapt to digital tools, manage information, conduct research, and create and communicate effectively and ethically in digital spaces.

Nursing Informatics

The use of nursing knowledge, clinical information, and digital systems to support nursing work and patient care.

Global Citizenship

Social, political, environmental, and economic action by globally minded individuals and communities on a worldwide scale.

Social Justice

Fair distribution of society's benefits, responsibilities, and consequences, including examining group positioning, identifying root causes of disparities, and eliminating them.

Disparity

A difference between groups, specifically those linked to unfair conditions and systemic causes that require intervention.

Health Equity

Fair opportunities and tailored support that respond to differing individual needs and systemic barriers, rather than treating everyone identically.

Equality

Providing the exact same resource or treatment to everyone, which may still leave people with unequal practical access due to unaddressed barriers.

Ten Attributes of Social Justice

Equity (including health equity), human rights, democracy and civil rights, capacity building, just institutions, enabling environments, poverty reduction, ethical practice, advocacy, and partnerships.

Clinician (CNO Role)

A CNO nursing role in which the nurse uses assessment, clinical knowledge, judgment, and technical skills to deliver direct patient care.

Professional (CNO Role)

A CNO nursing role characterized by responsible, ethical practice, personal accountability, and recognition of one's professional scope and limits.

Communicator (CNO Role)

A CNO nursing role focused on actively sharing and receiving information effectively with patients, families, and team members.

Collaborator (CNO Role)

A CNO nursing role centered on working cooperatively with patients, families, and multidisciplinary healthcare team members to construct care plans.

Coordinator (CNO Role)

A CNO nursing role that organizes services, connects components of care plans, and ensures client follow-up needs are met.

Leader (CNO Role)

A CNO nursing role that involves influencing care delivery, raising concerns, and supporting systemic improvements.

Advocate (CNO Role)

A CNO nursing role that actively supports people's needs, rights, and equitable access to care by identifying and addressing barriers.

Educator (CNO Role)

A CNO nursing role dedicated to supporting patient, family, and community learning and comprehension of care plans.

Scholar (CNO Role)

A CNO nursing role that leverages research evidence, ongoing inquiry, critical reflection, and lifelong learning to improve practice.

Catholic Nursing Traditions

A period on the Wytenbroek and Grypma history timeline identified as spanning the 1600s to the 1950s.

Florence Nightingale Reform

A specific historical reform period on the nursing timeline dated to the 1850s.

Colonial Healthcare

A historical era on the Wytenbroek and Grypma timeline categorized between the 1890s and the 1950s.

Decolonizing Healthcare

An era on the nursing history timeline extending from the 1950s to the present day.

Resilience

The process of recovering from adversity, learning from demanding situations, and converting adversity into opportunities.

Retrospection

Looking back and reflecting on an experience, supported in the curriculum by reflective activities such as Looking through the Cracks and Cleansing the Debris (Doane & Varcoe, 2021).

Workplace Adversity

The initial element representing the 'Problem' in the course resilience model, defined as the difficulty or pressure faced in academic or clinical practice.

Awareness (Resilience Model)

The 'Driver' in the resilience diagram, defined as recognizing what is happening, identifying sources of adversity, and noting one's own indicators of functioning or struggling.

Managing Exposure

The 'Core category' in the resilience process that encompasses responses to protect oneself, process distress, access connections, establish boundaries, and maintain coping routines.

Indicators of Resilience

The four potential states or outcome levels identified in the resilience diagram: thriving, resilience, survival, and burnout.

Biomedical View of Health

A model of health emphasizing disease, clinical pathology, treatment, and prevention, often conceptualizing health as the absence of disease or impairment.

Behavioral View of Health

A perspective that expands health focus to include lifestyle choices, habit changes, and personal risk-reduction behaviors.

Socio-environmental View of Health

A broad conceptualization of health that synthesizes biomedical and behavioral knowledge while prioritizing psychological, social, environmental, and political conditions.

Empowerment

The process of supporting individuals' and communities' capacity to identify, analyze, and take action on concerns regarding their lives and living conditions.