On Tuesday, September 8th, I had the pleasure of visiting the Museum of Tolerance as part of my clinical rotation for Community Health Nursing Laboratory. While I have previously visited the Museum of Tolerance, attending the museum in this stage of my nursing education contributed to an altogether new experience. Bringing the mindset of a community health nurse to this exhibit led me to question how the ethical role of the community health nurse should look in times of sociopolitical injustice. As I walked through the exhibits and saw the progression of discrimination and hate that spread throughout Germany in the 1930s-40s, I began to wonder what the experience was like for community health or district nurses at this time and the ethical
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In the concentration a camp, an extreme biopolitical space was formed were technology was welded to gain authority over the Jews. In this space the prisoners were stripped of their status as human beings and all ethical values ceased to exist. Thus, nurses participated in propagating horrendous acts against fellow humans (Georges & Benedict, 2006). While horrific to imagine, it is by studying these events to see how people are able to lose sight of the “humanness” of their patients so we can be prepared to defend our patients in the …show more content…
While this is important in terms of caring for individual patient themselves, it speaks even louder for the importance of maintaining nurses who care for the community as a whole. Community health nurses can be considered to be out at the front lines making sure that any assaults to public health are stopped before they have a chance to gain momentum and destroy society. They have the power to prevent injustices from occurring and protect those vulnerable populations who are unable to protect themselves. We have an obligation to head this historical warning and ensure that we never lose sight of the whole patient or population that we are serving. Therefore, the nurses have an obligation to care about the events occurring in society and the context in which they find their patients (Woods,
In the concentration a camp, an extreme biopolitical space was formed were technology was welded to gain authority over the Jews. In this space the prisoners were stripped of their status as human beings and all ethical values ceased to exist. Thus, nurses participated in propagating horrendous acts against fellow humans (Georges & Benedict, 2006). While horrific to imagine, it is by studying these events to see how people are able to lose sight of the “humanness” of their patients so we can be prepared to defend our patients in the …show more content…
While this is important in terms of caring for individual patient themselves, it speaks even louder for the importance of maintaining nurses who care for the community as a whole. Community health nurses can be considered to be out at the front lines making sure that any assaults to public health are stopped before they have a chance to gain momentum and destroy society. They have the power to prevent injustices from occurring and protect those vulnerable populations who are unable to protect themselves. We have an obligation to head this historical warning and ensure that we never lose sight of the whole patient or population that we are serving. Therefore, the nurses have an obligation to care about the events occurring in society and the context in which they find their patients (Woods,