What is it about?
Recent nursing research has shown, that getting bedridden is not an inevitable consequence of old age and disease, but that it often is the result of an awkward physical and social care environment. So for nurses it is important to understand which factors can lead to increased immobility through to local confinement and being bedridden and to know, in which way they can prevent confinment to bed. The study reveals, that only four of the ten surveyd German-language nursing textbooks provide the necessary nursing knowlege, while the others still focus on medical disease symptoms.
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Why is it important?
The findings show that publishers have to put more efforts to identify and provide current knowlege of nursing science instead of continuing with traditional, but nower days for the profession of nursing inappropriate medical contents in nursing textbooks. For teachers it is important to know, that they have to assess the textbooks critically regarding the selection of contents and their scientific editing.
Perspectives
I hope this article draws the attention of publishers and teachers to the developing body of knowlege of the nursing profession. It may also stimulate the discourse about the identity and characteristics of nursing and about what nurses have to learn and what not.
Monika Hellweg
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This page is a summary of: Pflegeausbildungsliteratur zwischen pflegewissenschaftlichem Anspruch und traditionellen medizinorientierten Wissensbeständen, PADUA, September 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.1024/1861-6186/a000388.
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