Building awareness, sensitivity, safety, and humility (NRSG2145 L11)

In addition to the community events and experiences scheduled for this semester, as listed on the calendar, each group will simultaneously explore salient concepts and apply what is learned from study, dialogue and experience in the community related to those concepts.

Course outline excerpts:

Outcomes:

1. Understand the diversity of clients and cultures nurses may care for.
2. Understand the importance of culturally grounded and safe health promotion for clients of all cultures.
3. Understand the value and implications of community-led (or not?)  health promotion.

Goals for Family Place experience - Early Learning and Youth programs:

1. Begin to develop cultural atonement and apply cultural humility in working with groups and organizations.
2. Communicate with families to understand their experience as Canadian citizens, especially related to health.
3. Describe which determinants of health impact the clients and how those determinants impact their family’s health.
4. Consider Hoskins’ five principles for assisting people to work towards cultural atonement (Vollman et al chapter 11).

Learning activities to be completed in concert with community experience.

Culture: within the context of community care: health promotion and community development

1. Describe Multi-culturalism in Canada and BC.
2. Identify the salient barriers that challenge the uptake of health promotion practices among immigrants.
3. What is the immigration experience like with respect to health?
4. What issues arise for new Canadians?
5. What resources exist currently?
6. What resources are still needed?
7. What is nursing’s role? How is it enacted?

The Indigenous experience:

1. Understand the historical, cultural, political, social and economic contexts that shape First Nation’s peoples’ health.
2. Understand the diversity of indigenous cultures and the importance of culturally grounded and safe indigenous health promotion.
3. What are the experiences of Indigenous students in the Langley school district?
4. What are some examples of promising Indigenous community engagement strategies?

First Nation’s team:

• Decide on what 2-3 questions you each wish to ask the Aboriginal Resource worker when you arrange to meet.
• After meeting, reflect on all the learning activities (readings, observations, conversations, reflections) and re-draw your concept map, picture, or photo novella.