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Item The 7th C: communion as the birthplace of professional self-hood(2022) Maykut, ColleenCommunion, defined as a shared journey of honoring each other’s being in and with the world, becomes a scared relational space for Professional Self-Hood. Professional Self-Hood has been defined as an internal embodiment and an external expression of nursing, the compilation of influences of being in and being with the world. Entering into communion to stretch in uncomfortableness begins the movement to unlearn, relearn, reaffirm, and recommit to the ongoing evolution of a just and caring version of ourselves as professionals, embodied and made visible as our Professional Self-Hood.Item The AEIOU mnemonic: using vowels to facilitate caring(2017) Maykut, Colleen; Hung, SarahLearning experiences must be designed which challenge students to explore nursing from ontological and epistemological perspectives. Educational strategies necessitate utilizing the student’s experiential knowledge as a catalyst for adopting “curiosity” about their future practice to ensure competent, safe, and ethical nurses. Nurse educators must ensure graduates’ capacity to acquire, appraise, and reflect on disciplinary and practical knowledge to enhance their future nursing practice. A unique learning strategy – “The AEIOU Mnemonic” (Assessment, Education, Implementation, Outcomes, and Understanding of the Lived Experience) and clinical case studies, grounded in caring sciences, were developed to foster clinical-reasoning and decision-making in a pre-licensure nursing program.Item Bullying the antithesis of caring: acknowledging the darker side of nursing(2015) Adams, Lisa Y.; Maykut, ColleenThe act of professional caring is vital and serves many purposes; healing for the patient, growth for the nurse, and professionalism for the discipline. To truly understand and appreciate caring as the essence of our humanity and our professional expression within our practice, as nurses we must acknowledge the darker side when caring is absent; the antithesis of caring or uncaring. Workplace bullying reflects an uncaring encounter which has become more visible and prevalent over the years. Bullying in the workplace is characterized as the on-going health or career endangering mistreatment of an employee, by one or more of their peers or higher-ups and reflects the misuse of actual and/or perceived power or position that undermines a nurse’s ability to succeed or do good, or leaves them feeling hurt, frightened, angry or powerless (American Nurses Association, 2015). As nurses, both individually and collectively, we have a responsibility to demand the creation of healthy workplace environments in which to ensure the expression of caring remains part of our nursing practice. Healthy workplace environments will initiate caring encounters between peers, as well as between nurses and patients; recognizing that everyone benefits. The essence of caring must be nurtured and valued by the nursing profession for it to continue to develop and flourish.Item Collective consciousness: wading into the discomfort of systemic discrimination(2022) Foster-Boucher, Caroline; Maykut, Colleen; Bremner, Sydney; Nelson, JodyBackground: Racism in nursing towards Indigenous peoples has been evident and well documented (Allen, & Smylie, 2015; Browne, 2005; Vukic et al., 2012). Canadian schools of nursing have been called upon to incorporate teaching of colonial history and address systemic discrimination against Indigenous peoples in response to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) findings (Baker, 2019; Blanchet Garneau et al., 2017, 2021; Truth and Reconciliation Commission [TRC], 2015). Methods: Our faculty of nursing has charged a team with forging a path forward in addressing the TRC Calls to Action. Our collective approach in pursuit of transformative nursing education for reconciliation aligns with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (2015): Quality education. Results: Learning and pivoting to meet the needs of the professional development for faculty and staff is an iterative process. This team has discovered the transformative potential of collective learning in moving towards systemic change (Jakubec & Bourque Bearskin, 2020; TRC, 2015) to inform curricular decisions. Conclusion: As a team seeking ways to decolonize pedagogies and practice, we are collectively engaged in the learning necessary to confront and unsettle our own thinking. In doing this difficult yet vital work together, we hold one another accountable and support each other; we are developing a collective, anti-oppressive consciousness as we solidify our commitment to this ongoing work. By wading into collective discomfort as a group of learners and educators, we can foster true disruptive change (Blanchet Garneau et al., 2021; Kenney, 2008).Item Commentary: Exploring training needs of nursing staff in rural Cretan primary care settings(2009) Maykut, ColleenNursing practice must be innovative and competent to meet the rapidly changing global health care system. The essential component to address these changes should be the assessment of staff education needs followed by the implementation of a focused education program. Implementation of a framework to identify specific learner's needs within their role may assist with meeting educational and workplace competencies, prudently manage health care resources, and advance quality of nursing care.Item Comportment: a caring attribute in the formation of an intentional practice(2010) Roach, Simone; Maykut, ColleenThe attribute of comportment is intended to convey the nurse's belief that dress and language reflect the professional's respect for the patient, family, and colleagues. Comportment, as a caring attribute, has the potential to offer an opportunity to concurrently visually represent the intentionality of a nursing practice and demonstrate professionalism. adherence to professional dress and address demonstrates respect for the dignity of a person as a human being. registered nurses must demonstrate commitment to their caring practice by recognizing the need of the other as more important than their own need for self-expression.Item Concept analysis: the clarification of body adornment(2014) Maykut, ColleenThe aim of this paper is to clarify the concept of body adornment informed by Roach’s (2002) caring theory, specifically the attribute of comportment.Item Conscious engagement in undergraduate male nursing students: facilitating voice through an action research project(2016) Maykut, Colleen; Lee, Andrew; Argueta, Nelson Garcia; Grant, Sean; Miller, ColeAlthough women have made significant progress into traditionally male-dominated professions, such as medicine and engineering, the same cannot be said of men in the nursing profession. Utilizing a critical social theory perspective, an action research project was designed to encourage participants, current male nursing students and alumni of MacEwan University, to share their educational experiences through narratives. The significance of this action research project is threefold: (1) to understand the phenomena of the MacEwan male nursing student, (2) to develop strategies and coping mechanisms to address concerns voiced by participants’ experiences, and (3) to create evaluative tools to assess effectiveness of such strategies.Item Contemplating what matters: a student’s personal nursing philosophy(2022) Maykut, Colleen; Bissonnette, AshleyA student’s future practice must be informed by theoretical or practical knowledge and nursing philosophy to encourage them to critically reflect to imagine themselves as professionals. A guided teaching strategy to explore the elements of nursing practice through an aesthetic and philosophical lens can help students understand how to integrate their personal selves into their future roles as professionals. A personal philosophy that draws insight from a clinical example highlights the dichotomy between idealism in nursing education and the realities of clinical practice. Creating personal philosophy statements encourages reflection and growth throughout undergraduate nursing education and beyond.Item A critical hermeneutic circle to reimagine professional selfhood(2023) Maykut, Colleen; Miller, Cole; Porter, Meredith; Badu, Nikki; Barroma, Arianne; Cheung, Chanel; McLeod, Danielle; Trotter, CassidyProfessional selfhood (PSH) is the embodiment of an individual’s social location influenced by being in and with the world. PSH informs our evolving professional journey as nurses. As our journeys are never singular, community formation to support this evolution is vital. Utilizing body mapping as an aesthetic methodology was enhanced through reflexivity situated in a critical hermeneutic circle. The phenomenon of interest in the original research study of six novice nurses was how the tension between what they desire to do and what they were able to do, lived in and on their bodies. This is our story, as a community of artists and researchers, who were inspired by a Critical Hermeneutic Circle the ongoing nurturance to enter this brave space to re-imagine our evolving PSH.Item DASEIN: a celebration of caring science scholars in communion(2018) Maykut, ColleenI am proposing Communion, as the 7th C, vital for the development, nurturance, and expression of a holistic expression or being of Roach's (2002) caring attributes. I am defining communion as humbly entering each other's world—a shared journey of being in the world. As humans, our primary focus is on our potential—the possibility of authentic human expression, being in and concerning the world (Heidegger, 1962). I will explore the particular of Caring Sciences through my own professional "Dasein" as I attach meaning of my own reflective process to higher philosophical beliefs.Item Deconstructing identity: professional relationships for sustaining morally habitable workplaces(2021) Maykut, ColleenOur professional responsibility as nurses is to enact social justice by changing oppressive structures. However, this may be difficult with competing perspectives in healthcare environments. Deconstructing our identity is foundational if we are to understand how to develop professional relationships with peers to move forward as a collective to enact social justice. A paradigm shift, from one world view to multiplicity, will help us develop insight into our own identities and professional relationships to sustain morally habitable workplaces.Item Designing a fourth year baccalaureate nursing course utilizing the lens of the theory of bureaucratic caring and a root cause analysis approach(2013) Maykut, Colleen; McKendrick-Calder, LisaThe purpose of baccalaureate nursing education is to foster critical thinking in the nursing student to encourage use of evidence in their practice, increasing their ability to manage complexity in a variety of settings. Nurses who incorporate critical thinking and problem-solving strategies into their practice ensure an evidence-informed approach and become active participants and architects of their own destiny. A root cause analysis approach utilizing The Theory of Bureaucratic Caring as a lens might facilitate critical thinking and problem solving, and enhance the understanding of the dichotomy of a caring bureaucracy; facilitate decision-making; and humanize nursing care (Ray, 1989; Ray & Turkel, 2012, 2010) for the nursing student.Item Fostering successful transitioning to practice: responding to the Covid crisis(2021) Maykut, Colleen; Dressler, Melissa; Newell-Killeen, HollyNursing education programs are developed intentionally and thoroughly to ensure students successfully transition to practice as competent, compassionate, ethical and safe healthcare professionals. Nursing faculty designing both programs of study and individual courses consider congruence of scaffolded concepts, the current landscape of healthcare, and anticipate trends and issues in healthcare delivery and nursing practice to ensure graduates are prepared. The pandemic caught many higher education institutions unawares and this was especially true of nursing as a practice profession. This educational innovation, in response to the health restrictions imposed by the health authority and educational institution, was developed to ensure students enrolled in their final practicum were not only able to graduate, but had the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes and attributes to thrive.Item Habitus: An ontological space fostering humanistic nursing education(2021) Maykut, Colleen; Wild, CarolThis text is an essential resource for all nurses interested in or engaged in education. As an emancipatory text it evokes informed action. For those already aware of the need for educational reform, it will provide support and new ideas needed to advance your work. For those new to these concepts, this book will be the spark to ignite your participation in the transformation of nursing education.Item Heutagogy enacting caring sciences practice(2019) Maykut, Colleen; Wild, Carol; May, NicoleNursing education, grounded in Caring Sciences, must also reflect a relational approach reflecting equity between student and teacher and a learning process which is humanized – interactive, engaging, and relevant. This relational approach creates a shared ethical and moral space that fosters an inner journey of contemplation, connection, consciousness and meaning informed by peace, power and truth, to connect simultaneously with others where all may learn and flourish. It is through engagement, a conscious connection, where learners (both teacher and student) negotiate choices, create tensions through discourse, and derive meaning of this shared experience (Hills & Watson, 2011). This engagement “leads to better persistence, learning, and achievement” (Bryson, 2016, p. 84) and ultimately the formation of a collaborative partnership for learning, creating, and evolving. Blaschke (2012) states the following concepts are instrumental in a curriculum grounded in heutagogy: capability, self-reflection and metacognition, double-loop learning and nonlinear learning, as well as teaching processes which foster self-determined learning. A learning contract is established, followed by learning activities which foster critical thinking and creativity, and finally learning outcomes are assessed (Blaschke & Hase, 2016). Teaching is about being in relationship, recognizing that learning occurs in relationship which is transformational and empowering. Success in transformational learning creates transcendent moments where we experience “that which is beyond us” where we tap into the collective unconscious and a critical consciousness emerges (Walker, 2010).Item Heutagogy: a pedagogical framework for cultivating critical consciousness in nursing students(2024) Reisdorfer, Emilene; Maykut, Colleen; Kempfer, Silvana Silveira; Rodrigues, Maria Eduarda de CarliBackground: Nursing education has traditionally utilized andragogical principles with the recent adoption of universal design learning to inform curricular decisions. What is missing is cultural safety and humility to ensure a justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) perspective. Cultivating critical consciousness in nursing education involves restructuring curricula and faculty development. Heutagogy, a unique learning approach, promotes mutual learning through critical self-reflection, self-directed goals, and ongoing professional and societal transformation. Objective: This study described a nursing course that incorporated a critical consciousness theoretical approach and heutagogy as a pedagogical framework to delve into the real-life experiences of individuals living with addiction. Results: Learners viewed themselves as continuously evolving through their learning journey. This perspective aligns with heutagogy, where individuals embrace lifelong learning consciousness and personal responsibility. At this stage, they became self-directed learners, in an innate and internal process of critical [missing text]. Conclusions: Seamlessly blending heutagogy and c critical consciousness offered a comprehensive framework for disseminating not only the requisite skills and knowledge but offering a profound understanding of their role in championing the social and ethical dimensions of health care. These meaningful learning experiences empowered learners to emerge as catalysts for change, diligently and ethical working towards equitable and just healthcare systems.Item The importance of being uncomfortable and unfinished(2022) Foster-Boucher, Caroline; Nelson, Jody; Bremner, Sydney; Maykut, ColleenOur initial intention was to outline the structure of an entity, the Bear Healing Lodge, within the Faculty of Nursing at MacEwan. This structure was created out of the Truth and Reconciliation’s Calls to Action. However, as we engaged in critical discussions we realized that who we were becoming as persons, as we unpacked out privilege and power, was invaluable and informative to prepare us for authentic allyship and partnership. We realized that outcomes and endings were not the end goals, but being uncomfortable and unfinished were necessary for the creation of an ethical space for members to engage in decolonization of self. Authentic allyship and partnership must fundamentally be relational, create a brave space for vulnerability, and stimulate a shift in paradigms for multiple perspectives. We have humbly offered learning intentions, as solution-oriented perspectives, for others to learn which may lead to positive change.Item Incorporating the 4As to navigate ChatGPT: academic integrity, acquisition, analysis and application. A nursing student and faculty perspective(2024) Maykut, Colleen; Abdul, Raina Edreanne; Miranda, Reuben AntonyNursing faculty must prepare graduates as knowledge consumers and innovators to improve digital literacy. The 4As –refers to Academic Integrity, Acquisition, Analysis, and Application, while the ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence app (created in November 2022) https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt that can quickly gather information for the user. The fourth technological revolution is here and nurses as members of a discipline we must reimagine and build bridges to address the widening chasm currently evident between education and practice. An innovative learning assignment utilizing ChatGPT as an adjunct knowledge assist was explored from both a student and faculty perspective. Insights and recommendations for further course enhancement are offered.Item Increasing leadership acumen: adopting a sense-making framework(2021) Miller, Kathleen; Maykut, ColleenHealth care environments, as complex adaptive systems, are constantly in flux. Nurse leaders cannot and in fact should not utilize approaches that worked in the past to attempt to navigate “wicked problems,” such as COVID-19. Clarity around the relationships among variables influencing the sociopolitical context is vital to understand. The adoption of a sense-making model, such as the Cynefin framework, fosters multiple perspectives, collaborative teamwork, and systems thinking to mitigate wicked problems. The importance of transformational leadership and followership is fundamental to tackling the lack of predictability the current pandemic has caused.