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[Image: see text] The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News Media 20 Years Later

PURPOSE: To determine if nurses are represented in health news stories more frequently today than 20 years ago when Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honorary Society published The Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media, which found that nurses were cited as sources in only 4% of the stories. D...

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Autores principales: Mason, Diana J., Nixon, Laura, Glickstein, Barbara, Han, Sarah, Westphaln, Kristi, Carter, Laura
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6282954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30260071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12429
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Nixon, Laura
Glickstein, Barbara
Han, Sarah
Westphaln, Kristi
Carter, Laura
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description PURPOSE: To determine if nurses are represented in health news stories more frequently today than 20 years ago when Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honorary Society published The Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media, which found that nurses were cited as sources in only 4% of the stories. DESIGN: Content analysis of health news stories for the month of September 2017 in the same publications used in the original Woodhull study. METHODS: Searches with Nexis and Webhose identified 2,243 articles related to health care published by the news outlets in September 2017. A random sample of 537 of these articles was obtained: 258 from seven newspapers, 127 from three weekly newsmagazines, and 152 from three health industry publications. After removing irrelevant articles or those with only passing references to health, 365 articles were reviewed and coded, using the original study's coding schema. FINDINGS: Nurses were identified as the source of only 2% of quotes in the articles and were never sourced in stories on health policy. When quoted, nurses mainly commented on the profession itself. Nurses or the nursing profession were mentioned in 13% of the articles. Nurses were identified in 4% of photographs or other images that accompanied the articles. CONCLUSIONS: Nurses remain invisible in health news media, despite their increasing levels of education, unique roles, and expertise. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Nurses’ clinical expertise is accompanied by unique perspectives on health, illness, and health care; but the public is not benefiting from the wisdom and insight that nurses can provide in health news stories.
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spelling pubmed-62829542018-12-14 [Image: see text] The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News Media 20 Years Later Mason, Diana J. Nixon, Laura Glickstein, Barbara Han, Sarah Westphaln, Kristi Carter, Laura J Nurs Scholarsh Profession and Society PURPOSE: To determine if nurses are represented in health news stories more frequently today than 20 years ago when Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honorary Society published The Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media, which found that nurses were cited as sources in only 4% of the stories. DESIGN: Content analysis of health news stories for the month of September 2017 in the same publications used in the original Woodhull study. METHODS: Searches with Nexis and Webhose identified 2,243 articles related to health care published by the news outlets in September 2017. A random sample of 537 of these articles was obtained: 258 from seven newspapers, 127 from three weekly newsmagazines, and 152 from three health industry publications. After removing irrelevant articles or those with only passing references to health, 365 articles were reviewed and coded, using the original study's coding schema. FINDINGS: Nurses were identified as the source of only 2% of quotes in the articles and were never sourced in stories on health policy. When quoted, nurses mainly commented on the profession itself. Nurses or the nursing profession were mentioned in 13% of the articles. Nurses were identified in 4% of photographs or other images that accompanied the articles. CONCLUSIONS: Nurses remain invisible in health news media, despite their increasing levels of education, unique roles, and expertise. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Nurses’ clinical expertise is accompanied by unique perspectives on health, illness, and health care; but the public is not benefiting from the wisdom and insight that nurses can provide in health news stories. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-09-27 2018-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6282954/ /pubmed/30260071 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12429 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Journal of Nursing Scholarship published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Sigma Theta Tau International The Honor Society of Nursing. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Glickstein, Barbara
Han, Sarah
Westphaln, Kristi
Carter, Laura
[Image: see text] The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News Media 20 Years Later
title [Image: see text] The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News Media 20 Years Later
title_full [Image: see text] The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News Media 20 Years Later
title_fullStr [Image: see text] The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News Media 20 Years Later
title_full_unstemmed [Image: see text] The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News Media 20 Years Later
title_short [Image: see text] The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News Media 20 Years Later
title_sort [image: see text] the woodhull study revisited: nurses’ representation in health news media 20 years later
topic Profession and Society
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6282954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30260071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12429
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