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The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand
This paper charts the history and debates surrounding the introduction of academic, university-based training of nurses in South Africa. This was a process that was drawn out over five decades, beginning in the late 1930s. For nurses, university training was an important part of a process of profess...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168895/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21994840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/813270 |
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description | This paper charts the history and debates surrounding the introduction of academic, university-based training of nurses in South Africa. This was a process that was drawn out over five decades, beginning in the late 1930s. For nurses, university training was an important part of a process of professionalization; however, for other members of the medical community, nursing was seen as being linked to women's service work. Using the case-study of the University of the Witwatersrand, one of South Africa's premier universities and the place in the country to offer a university-based nursing program, we argue that an historical understanding of the ways in which nursing education was integrated into the university system tells us a great deal about the professionalization of nursing. This paper also recognises, for the first time, the pioneers of this important process. |
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spelling | pubmed-31688952011-10-12 The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand Horwitz, Simonne Nurs Res Pract Research Article This paper charts the history and debates surrounding the introduction of academic, university-based training of nurses in South Africa. This was a process that was drawn out over five decades, beginning in the late 1930s. For nurses, university training was an important part of a process of professionalization; however, for other members of the medical community, nursing was seen as being linked to women's service work. Using the case-study of the University of the Witwatersrand, one of South Africa's premier universities and the place in the country to offer a university-based nursing program, we argue that an historical understanding of the ways in which nursing education was integrated into the university system tells us a great deal about the professionalization of nursing. This paper also recognises, for the first time, the pioneers of this important process. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3168895/ /pubmed/21994840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/813270 Text en Copyright © 2011 Simonne Horwitz. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Horwitz, Simonne The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand |
title | The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand |
title_full | The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand |
title_fullStr | The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand |
title_full_unstemmed | The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand |
title_short | The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand |
title_sort | nurse in the university: a history of university education for south african nurses: a case study of the university of the witwatersrand |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168895/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21994840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/813270 |
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