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Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing Schools: The Perspective of the Victims and Survivors
In recent years, there has been increased recognition of the significance and relevance of Holocaust studies to nurses. However, these studies are rarely integrated in the nursing curriculum, and even when they are, the focus is usually on healthcare personnel who collaborated with the Nazi regime....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34501558 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18178969 |
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description | In recent years, there has been increased recognition of the significance and relevance of Holocaust studies to nurses. However, these studies are rarely integrated in the nursing curriculum, and even when they are, the focus is usually on healthcare personnel who collaborated with the Nazi regime. This article aims to bridge this gap by analyzing a comprehensive requisite curriculum on the Holocaust for graduate nursing students. We emphasize the work of Jewish healthcare professionals during the Holocaust and the dilemmas they faced, as well as the trauma and resilience of Holocaust survivors, their treatment today, and implications for treating other patients. This article examines how studying these issues affected the graduate students. It analyzes the reflective accounts written by the students, using qualitative content analysis and Grounded Theory. The findings suggest that students received tools to act professionally and empathetically while demonstrating greater sensitivity to the patients’ identity, past experiences, trauma, and how the hospital as a “total institution” affects them. Many of the students developed conscious leadership. The program used a personalized pedagogical approach that contributed to experiential learning but was also emotionally challenging for the participants. We recommend including Holocaust studies as a requisite component in nursing programs worldwide. |
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spelling | pubmed-84311792021-09-11 Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing Schools: The Perspective of the Victims and Survivors Orr, Zvika Romem, Anat Int J Environ Res Public Health Article In recent years, there has been increased recognition of the significance and relevance of Holocaust studies to nurses. However, these studies are rarely integrated in the nursing curriculum, and even when they are, the focus is usually on healthcare personnel who collaborated with the Nazi regime. This article aims to bridge this gap by analyzing a comprehensive requisite curriculum on the Holocaust for graduate nursing students. We emphasize the work of Jewish healthcare professionals during the Holocaust and the dilemmas they faced, as well as the trauma and resilience of Holocaust survivors, their treatment today, and implications for treating other patients. This article examines how studying these issues affected the graduate students. It analyzes the reflective accounts written by the students, using qualitative content analysis and Grounded Theory. The findings suggest that students received tools to act professionally and empathetically while demonstrating greater sensitivity to the patients’ identity, past experiences, trauma, and how the hospital as a “total institution” affects them. Many of the students developed conscious leadership. The program used a personalized pedagogical approach that contributed to experiential learning but was also emotionally challenging for the participants. We recommend including Holocaust studies as a requisite component in nursing programs worldwide. MDPI 2021-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8431179/ /pubmed/34501558 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18178969 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Orr, Zvika Romem, Anat Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing Schools: The Perspective of the Victims and Survivors |
title | Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing Schools: The Perspective of the Victims and Survivors |
title_full | Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing Schools: The Perspective of the Victims and Survivors |
title_fullStr | Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing Schools: The Perspective of the Victims and Survivors |
title_full_unstemmed | Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing Schools: The Perspective of the Victims and Survivors |
title_short | Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing Schools: The Perspective of the Victims and Survivors |
title_sort | teaching the holocaust in nursing schools: the perspective of the victims and survivors |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34501558 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18178969 |
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