Social justice in Canadian nursing professional documents: A Foucauldian discourse analysis

Author:

Slemon Allie1ORCID,Wonsiak Tessa1ORCID,Delli Colli Anne‐Renée2,Blanchet Garneau Amélie2ORCID,Varcoe Colleen3,Bungay Vicky3

Affiliation:

1. School of Nursing University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia Canada

2. Faculty of Nursing Université de Montréal, Pavillon Marguerite‐d'Youville Montreal Quebec Canada

3. School of Nursing The University of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia Canada

Abstract

AbstractSocial justice is widely advanced as a central nursing value, and yet conceptual understandings of social justice remain inconsistent and vague. Further, despite persistently articulated commitments to upholding social justice, the profession of nursing has been implicated in perpetuating inequities in health and health care. In this context, it is essential to establish both conceptual clarity and tangible guidance for nurses in enacting practices to advance social justice—particularly through regulatory, education and accreditation documents that shape the nursing profession. This Foucauldian discourse analysis examines how social justice is discursively positioned within nursing professional documents in Canada, and illustrates that social justice was largely discursively excluded from these texts. Where social justice discourses were invoked, we identified that four central discursive patterns obscured and de‐centred this nursing value: (i) Vague language undermined professional commitments to social justice; (ii) Constructions of knowledge and awareness de‐emphasized practice; (iii) Individualism discourses minimized institutional/professional responsibility; and (iv) Aspirational language obscured present action. Extending from this analysis, we contend that the nursing profession must re‐examine how social justice is understood and articulated, and call for a re‐conceptualization of social justice grounded in nursing practice toward remediating inequities in health and health care.

Funder

Killam Trusts

University of British Columbia

Publisher

Wiley

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