Clinical Learning Outcomes
The purposeful, calculated and collaborative effort to bring about improvements, the continual need to update.
What is sustainable change?
How nursing decisions are made with clients, using an ongoing process that incorporates reasearch, clinical expertise, client preferences and other available resources.
What is evidence-informed practice?
Factors that influence health beyond our indivdiual genetics and lifestyle choices. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.
What are the determinants of health?
Sometimes known as the Sacred Hoop, this is used for health and healing. It embodies the Four Directions, which symbolize dimensions of health and the cycles of life.
What is the Medicine Wheel?
A strengths-based framework grounded in the understanding of and responsiveness to the impact of trauma. The framework emphasizes physical, psychological, and emotional safety for both providers and survivors, and creates opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment.
What is trauma-informed care?
A diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, create, disseminate, store and manage information.
What are ICTs (information and communication technologies)?
Is the proficiency or judgement that a nurse acquires through clinical practice. Can be used as an evidence-based source.
What is nursing expertise?
When everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be healthier.
What is health equity?
https://www.ahealthierworld.jhu.edu/understand-health-equity
Self-reflection of personal and systemic biases, acknowledging oneself as the learner when regarding another's experience.
Guides actions to improve health with three critical questions, "On What should we take action? How should we take action? and With whom should we act?"
What is the Population Heath Promotion model?
The process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional or behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.
What is resilience?
An ethical standard for nurses that promotes fairness and equity and provides equal opportunities. It's also important to the safety and security of individuals and communities.
What is social justice?
These interventions seek to increase equitable access, at an individual or family level, to health and social services.
What are downstream interventions?
The intent of this phrase is to help educate people about the vast variety of knowledge that exists across diverse Indigenous communities and is steeped in a deep respect for the land, and the necessity of a reciprocal realthionship with the land.
What is 'Indigenous Ways of Knowing'?
They are accessibility, public participation, health promotion, appropriate skills and technology and intersectoral cooperation.
What are the primary health care principles?
Ways in which power systems and social structures operate across time, place, and societal levels, and impact individuals or populations (e.g., along axes such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation, among others).
What is intersectionality?
The focus of this is to recognize barriers to health and to mobilze and build on existing strengths
What is capacity building?
The differences in health status between different population groups, arising from social conditions. When some people are more likely to get sick or die because of their social and economic conditions.
What are health disparities?
https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes (slide 8)
The outcome when an environment is based on respectful engagement, free of racisim and discrimination, and addresses the health care system's power imbalances.
The potentially traumatic events, such as emotional, physical or sexual abuse, that occur in childhood (0-18 years). Adults who experienced these are more likely to report mental health conditions, amongst many other chronic conditions.
What are adverse childhood experiences?
Understanding one's civic duty in the advocacy of a more just and equitable world.
What is effective citizenship?
Actionable policy recommendations meant to aid the healing process in two ways: acknowledging the full, horrifying history of the residential schools system, and creating systems to prevent these abuses from ever happening again in the future.
What are the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada? (CNO 7.3)
Seek to reform the fundamental social and economic structures that distribute wealth, power, opportunities and decision making.
What are upstream interventions?
One of the most important determinants of Indigenous health, is the right and responsibility to design, deliver, manage and ultimately, control their own health services, which is the key to closing gaps in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations.
What is self-determination?
Prioritizes social justice over professional objectives (empowering the effective citizen). The practioner links their everyday practice to the broader social, ethical and political forces or structures.
What is Goodman Model of Reflection Level 3?