nursingforsocialjustice

I suspect something. As there is an increase in people who contact the inpatient mental health system on an involuntary basis and and increase in people who come into contact with the system who are living with substance use and mental health disorders, as there is still pervasive moral judgement about substance use and poverty are we missing something in the pursuit for less violence in the health care workplace? What is really going on here? Are we missing something? What about if we focused on building a relationship, the first time that a person comes into contact with the health care system, it doesn’t even matter what the service is, we are focused on building a trusting relationship from a place of compassion, respect and kindness. It doesn’t matter how old they are. They might be a baby, they might be a teenager, they might be an older adult. What if we went about this differently. What if the basis of a nursing program was actually on anti-oppression and social justice as an equal component of health care navigation? What if our role was different? What if we were social justice health care instigators and navigators? And right up at the beginning we were taught what the purpose of self-reflection and reflective practice was? And the first thing that we were slapped in the face with was establishing a therapeutic relationship, but in a meaningful way that made it apparent that without the therapeutic relationship there isn’t anything else?