Definitions
Encourages looking at a situation from the other person’s perspective. Looks at an individual's personal interpretations, concerns, values, and past experiences.
What is the HP Lens?
A new nurse is starting on your unit. Their name is Alex. You subconsciously assume they are a woman using this lens.
What is the Critical Feminist Lens?
Helps us see how power dynamics in people's lives influence their experiences.
What is a Critical Lens?
Using this lens a nurse considers a patient's race and ethnicity for their care.
What is the Postcolonial Lens?
This lens highlights how health is influenced by social constructs and how power within health care is gendered.
What is the Critical Feminist Lens?
A nurse is treating a patient recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Using ths lens the nurse takes care to inquire about the patient’s and their family's concerns and values regarding the diagnosis.
What is the HP Lens?
This lens adds to your understanding of history and how it affects the communities, groups, families, and individual patients you provide care to.
What is the Postcolonial Lens?
A student nurse overheard the physical therapist referring to a patient as “possibly delirious”, shifting the student's view of the patient due to this type of critical lens.
What is the Poststructural Lens?
LANGUAGE affects our actions. This lens highlights the role of language in shaping POWER dynamics.
What is a Post Structural Lens?
A student nurse is taking the time to ask her patient how his migraines are affecting his daily life and what is of most concern to him right now in his care? The student nurse is taking an ______ perspective of illness.
What is an Insider Perspective of Illness?