Canadian Nurses Role Analysis

2.2. Professional and Personal Roles and Responsibilities of Nurses in Canada First and foremost, an individual nurse should consider social determinants in the treatment by asking the right questions about patients’ nutritional habits. A nurse should be able to determine whether patients are able to make healthy living decisions. If not, as professionals, they should offer patients information how to get access to nutritional food by working within their financial means. In order to take action, a nurse must be knowledgeable about the social and health services that are available to patients. They must advocate for vulnerable children and their parents. As Morin writes, nurses should be aware that infant and child nutrition is closely linked with maternal nutrition, maternal economic status, because addressing one without addressing the others is ineffective. Ultimately, nurses are challenged to “develop interventions that are multifactorial in nature” (Morin, 2007, p. 60). Furthermore, as per the “Canadian Community Health Nursing Professional Practice Model”, there are two specific standards that nurses should uphold: “Standard 4”, which means emphasizing and

As such, they are acknowledged by the all levels of national government. However, it seems that the current policies do not adequately address the issue. The Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights states that there have been “promises for improving data for more than five years with almost no progress”. Because of that, the coalition, as a multi-stakeholder group aimed to address this problem: “the need for consistent and comprehensive approaches to policies that affect children. As it has been said, the focus should be on vulnerable groups, who were left behind in the country. David Morley’s (UNICEF Canada) recommends