March 1, 2012

Dialogue and respect:

Building respectful
communities

Tracy Oosterbroek RN, BN, MScN

Shauna Langenberger RN, BN, MSc(c)

Theme:
Dialogue & respect: Building respectful communities

Understanding and politics

Ethics in day-to-day nursing practice
Respect and Care
Feminist approach to Linking Nursing
Theory & Practice

Class Outline March 1, 2012

1.

Brief summary and facilitated in-class discussion

1. Dillon
Brief biography & summary of article
Review class responses to Question posed
2. Santos & Cameron
Brief biography of authors & summary of article
Review class responses to Question posed
2. Prep for online discussion (end of class)
1. Georges
1.Brief biography & summary of article
2. Questions and discussion lead-off posted online following
class

2.

Arendt
1.Brief biography & summary of article
2.Questions and discussion lead-off posted online
following class

Dr. Robin S. Dillon

Professor, Department of
Philosophy at Lehigh
University in Bethlehem, PS
PhD in Philosophy (1987)
University of Pittsburgh
Ethics & Feminist
Philosophy
Research in Self Respect:
Seeking to understand
Connection between
respecting self and
respecting others
Dillon refers to she & her

http://cas.lehigh.edu/casweb/default.aspx?id=997

Respect And Care: Towards Moral Integration

Brief Summary
Marriage between respect & care
Varieties of respect
Kantian view of respect
Dillon view of care-respect

Question:
1. When did you first experience the
marriage of respect and professional
caring in your role as a nurse?
2. What factors influenced this
experience?

Dr. Anna Santos Salas

Dr. Brenda L. Cameron
Dr. Anna Santos Salas
From Chile
PhD & Post Doc at Univ. of Alberta
Interests: Palliative Care

Dr. Brenda Cameron

Dissertation: Understanding
nursing and its Practices (1998)
Delineating the nature of
nursing as revealed in its
practices
Interdisciplinary/interprofessional
team interaction
Shared interests:
Aboriginal peoples
Hermeneutic phenomenology
Collaboration 3 published articles

http://www.nursing.ualberta.ca/en/Staff/Faculty/BCameron.aspx
A. Santos Salas, (personal communication (email), February, 22, 2012

Ethical Openings in Palliative Home Care Practice

Home care nurses nursing to display its ethical self.
Relational nurse -home- patient

Builds on Camerons earlier work

Method: Interpretive Inquiry
Hermeneutic Phenomenology
Achieve understanding

Question: In relation to nursing practice, what would be a key thought,

idea, reaction that was stimulated by Santos & Cameron (2010)?

Dr. Jane M. Georges

PhD in Nursing Science
(1991) University of
Washington
Postdoc (1991-1993) Psycho
physiological nursing
University of San Diego
(Associate professor
Tenured) current
Research interest: human
suffering in the context of
gender, ethnicity and class
see below.
Critical-feminist, poststructural and post colonial
methodological perspectives

http://www.sandiego.edu/nursing/faculty/biography.php?ID=702

Linking Nursing Theory and Practice:

A Critical-Feminist Approach

Transmission of knowledge: from teacher to

students?
Whose knowledge is this?
Have you ever questioned this knowledge?
How have you come to apply theory, theories and
theoretical knowledge in your professional practice?

Dr. Hannah Arendt

(1906 1975)

Born in Germany - Jewish

German Trained Scholar a Celebrated Intellectual:
Studied with Heidegger,
Karl Jaspers, Kierkegaard
Political activist - against
Nazism
Escaped Germany to
France
Became a United States
citizen in 1941
Published: The Origins of
Totalitarianism in 1951 &
expanded edition in 1958

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www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/arendt.html; Dr. Brenda Cameron - Brendas Noted: week 8 eclass

Understanding and Politics:

The Difficulties of understanding

Understanding totalitarianism
Knowledge and understanding are
not the same.
How was it possible for Nazism to overtake
German society/politics?

Perversion
Indoctrination
Common sense

Imagination
Salvation

Question Online for Arendt

How does Arendt open for us a renewed understanding

of our place in the practice of nursing and how
common sense knowledge can be perverted? How can
we guard against this in nursing?

References
www.dictionary.com pervert; perverse
www.etymonlline.com pervert; perverse
Images: Google images