222004 Facilitated round table discussion

Sunday, November 7, 2010 : 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Teresa Garrett, RN MS , Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, UT
The session will allow participants to describe the personal and professional risks associated with a commitment to the ideal of social justice. The session will conclude with strategies to advance the role of public health nurses as social activists.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Ethics, professional and legal requirements
Public health or related nursing

Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session, the participant will be able to: 1. Identify three social justice/market justice tension points in public health nursing practice 2. Compare and contrast the value structure of social justice to that of market justice 3. List three strategies to advance public health nurses’ social activism 4. Describe one example of how social justice guides, directs, and challenges his/her own public health nursing practice. 5. Identify the origin of his/her personal social justice beliefs

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Chair of the Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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