Hidden Figures
The indigenous people who inhabited the land that became Philadelphia; they were displaced by Quakers and other religious minorities that settled the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
Who are the Lenni Lanape?
Unconscious and automatic stereotypes and beliefs about a categorical group that can influence behavior outside of our awareness.
What is implicit bias?
education, employment, income disparities, poverty, housing, crime, social cohesion
What are social determinants of health?
Do what you say you'll do. Keep your word.
Supporting and uplifting those who experience oppression and/or challenging oppression enacted from privileged others and from systemic norms and practices.
What is acting as an ally/accomplice?
Although most notable for her work as a wartime nurse-heroine during the Crimean War, she treated patients in Constantinople, Balaclava, Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas, Panama, and London.
Who was Mary Jane Seacole?
Social categories are experienced in interaction with each other (e.g. race, ethnicity, gender, social class, sexuality, ability, etc.)
What is intersectionality?
The nurse should assess patients for these usually overlooked factors as affecting the health status of patients
What are education, employment, income disparities, poverty, housing, crime, social cohesion?
Understanding how social justice issues impact ourselves, our patients, and the community is part of developing the professional nursing role.
Why should nurses study social justice?
Explicitly focused on directly challenging institutional and systemic oppression, involving greater risk.
What is acting as an accomplice?
Recognized as the first licensed African American nurse after her graduation in 1879 from the New England Hospital Training School, one of the first integrated nursing schools in the US.
Who was Mary Eliza Mahoney?
The harmful experiences that come with having identities, status, or backgrounds that have been constructed (currently or historically with current legacies) as less deserving, less worthy, or less human.
What is oppression?
This construct is present in most societal structures.
What is power?
Resist "amygdala hijacking" where generalizations cause acting out of previous fear and pain, thus letting emotions take control of reasoning.
What is managing one's self?
Knowledge, awareness, empathy and application to personal experience and positionality.
What is critical consciousness?
She was an abolitionist and Civil Rights activist who escaped slavery. Her nursing care for wounded African American soldiers during the Civil War is often overshadowed. In 1862, she travelled to Beaufort, South Carolina to nurse the abandoned Gullah people on the South Carolina's Sea Islands.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The ability to influence an outcome in a desired direction, including outcomes that relate to another person’s actions, feelings, or thoughts.
What is power?
Differences in health that are unnecessary, avoidable, unfair and unjust.
What are health inequities?
Give voice to and support with concrete action, those without power. Minimize power plays in promotion, hiring, and patient assignments.
What is distributing power?
What is expanding critical consciousness?
While enslaved, she served as a lived-in nurse. Following her freedom, she used her advocacy to speak out against injustices of slavery as well as women's rights and funding for nursing training. She was appointed to work at Freedman's Hospital by the United States War Department under President Johnson's leadership providing nursing care for patients. Her philosophy was based on sanitation, as she believed patients could not become well in unclean environments.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
Identity in relation to social groups and categories such as racial identity, ethic identity, etc. Shaped by personal experiences and viewpoints and by experiences of affinity, belonging, or exclusion with social groups as well as impositions of group categorization.
What is social identity?
The absence of socially unjust or unfair health disparities.
What is equity in health?
See people as people. Eliminate ideas about superiority, inferiority, and where to place people on a hierarchy.
What is stop labeling others?
A way to let an individual know they are enacting oppression. Prioritizes relational care for the individual who has enacted oppression with an understanding that recognizes good intentions, and calls attention to the issue.
What is "calling in?"