Guide to Nursing's Social Policy Statement : Understanding the Profession from Social Contract to Social Covenant

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Nursing is often called a helping profession: Nursings Social Policy Statement is about the many ways that nursing helps others. It is about the relationshipthe social contractbetween the nursing profession and society and their reciprocal expectations. This arrangement authorizes nurses as professionals to meet the needs involved in the care, and health of patients and clients and the health of society. It helps nurses engage in the political and legislative action that supports nursing education, research, and practice to better influence that health and care; and to understand the social ethics and justice that affect global and individual health. But what does that mean now? The new Guide to Nursings Social Policy Statement unpacks it for the 21st century nurse: Social contract in theory and practice Nursings own social contract and its 16 distinct elements Nursing and the common good and what constitutes the common good today Citizenship, civic engagement, and civic professionalism of nurses Professions and what they are, how they can get broken and mended, and nursing as a profession The interplay of the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements and Nursings Social Policy Statement Nursings social covenant (by which nursing goes beyond its social contract) Nursings involvement in public and global health Suitable for courses and professional development activities in nursing curriculum, ethics, leadership, research, and role development, the Guide to Nursings Social Policy Statement clarifies foundational concepts of the nursingsociety relationship, the breadth of ways in which nurses might exercise their passion for the profession, a vision for nursings social evolution, and much more! Guide to Nursing's Social Policy Statement Title page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Social Contract Theory Nursing’s Social Policy Statement and Nursing’s Social Contract A Short History of Social Contract Theory: Understanding the Unwritten Social Arrangement It Creates Hobbes: Overcoming a Life That is “solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short” Locke: Power to the People Rousseau: Social Contract Gone Wrong and the More Perfect Union Rawls: The Two Principle Prenuptial Agreement to the Social Contract Feminists, Critical Race Theorists, and Social Outliers: In-Groups and Out-Groups Social Contract and Health Care: Medicine Is Not Nursing The 16 Elements of the Social Contract: Reciprocal Expectations Between Nursing and Society Society’s Expectations of Nursing within the Social Contract Nursing’s Expectations of Society within the Social Contract Gedankenexperimente: Some Thought Experiments for Nurses about Social Contract Theory Chapter 2. Nursing as Profession Nursing as an Occupation, Vocation, Calling, and Profession Occupation and Vocation, Livelihood and Calling Occupation Vocation and Calling The Emergence of Professions Some Approaches to Defining Profession A Global Perspective on Nursing and the Societal View Approach Profession as One Type of Occupational Control Two Approaches to the Role of Professions in Society A Positive View A Cynical View Nursing as a Profession Chapter 3. Broken Professions and How to Mend Them Professions and the New Economy The Service Sector The New Economy Professions: Breaking Faith with the Public and in Breach of Contract Breaking Faith Reclaiming a Moral Force Citizenship in Nursing Citizenship and the Code of Ethics for Nurses Re-Shaping Society Civic Professionalism and Nursing Developing Civic Professionalism Through Education The Necessity of a Liberal Education Gedankenexperimente: On the New Economy, Corporatization of Education, and Civic Professionalism Chapter 4. Nursing: A Covenant of Care Educational Formation, Ethical Comportment, and Professional Identity Formation as Both Doing and Being Formation that Engages Sophia Civic Professionalism Beyond the Bedside The Functions of Social Ethics Cognitive Apprenticeship for Political Involvement Globalization Global Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism Meaning and Value Structures and Power Structures The Adequacy of Social Contract as a Framework Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach Tronto’s Political Ethic of Care Toward a More Adequate Framework Nursing and Supererogation Nursing and Self-Interest Nursing and the Common Good From Social Contract to Social Covenant Of Contracts and Covenants The Donative Element of Covenant A History of Covenant Nursing’s Social Covenant Gedankenexperimente: On Civic and Cosmopolite Professionalism, Nursing Education, Power and Value Structures, and Covenant Afterword Global Example: The Feminization of HIV/AIDS Structural Adjustment Policies and the Social Safety Net: Health Consequences Gedankenexperimente: On the Feminization of HIV/AIDS, Global Health, and Nursing’s Cosmopolite Professionalism References and Bibliography Index Back Cover