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A survey of nursing teachers’ awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care
BACKGROUND: Nursing care should be respectful of and unrestricted by patients’ age, ethnicity, gender, dis/abilities or social status, and such values should be taught to nursing students. Nursing teachers are crucial as role models, and their values are essential. In telephone nursing, only age, se...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8638536/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34852806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-021-00762-5 |
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author | Holmström, Inger K Kaminsky, Elenor Höglund, Anna T Carlsson, Marianne |
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description | BACKGROUND: Nursing care should be respectful of and unrestricted by patients’ age, ethnicity, gender, dis/abilities or social status, and such values should be taught to nursing students. Nursing teachers are crucial as role models, and their values are essential. In telephone nursing, only age, sex and ethnicity are known to the registered nurses, which can be challenging. The aim of this study was to explore awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing among nursing teachers. METHODS: A study specific survey was filled in by 135 nursing teachers from three universities in Sweden. The survey included short descriptions of 12 fictive persons who differed in age, ethnicity and sex and with questions about their estimated life situation. The teachers’ estimations of life situation were ranked from lowest probability to highest probability. A ‘good life index’ was constructed and calculated for each fictive person. It included quality of life, power over one’s own life and experience of discrimination. RESULTS: The results indicate that the nursing teachers were aware of how power and age, ethnicity and sex are related; that is, they were aware of discrimination and inequity in healthcare. The persons assessed to be most likely to lead a good life were males of Swedish origin, followed by females of Swedish origin. Persons with non-European origin were estimated to have the highest probability of experiencing discrimination. CONCLUSIONS: The nursing teachers were aware of discrimination and inequity in healthcare. They were able to estimate a fictive person’s life situation based on the limited knowledge of age, ethnicity and sex. This is important, as their values are pivotal in theoretical and practical nursing education. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12912-021-00762-5. |
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spelling | pubmed-86385362021-12-03 A survey of nursing teachers’ awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care Holmström, Inger K Kaminsky, Elenor Höglund, Anna T Carlsson, Marianne BMC Nurs Research Article BACKGROUND: Nursing care should be respectful of and unrestricted by patients’ age, ethnicity, gender, dis/abilities or social status, and such values should be taught to nursing students. Nursing teachers are crucial as role models, and their values are essential. In telephone nursing, only age, sex and ethnicity are known to the registered nurses, which can be challenging. The aim of this study was to explore awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing among nursing teachers. METHODS: A study specific survey was filled in by 135 nursing teachers from three universities in Sweden. The survey included short descriptions of 12 fictive persons who differed in age, ethnicity and sex and with questions about their estimated life situation. The teachers’ estimations of life situation were ranked from lowest probability to highest probability. A ‘good life index’ was constructed and calculated for each fictive person. It included quality of life, power over one’s own life and experience of discrimination. RESULTS: The results indicate that the nursing teachers were aware of how power and age, ethnicity and sex are related; that is, they were aware of discrimination and inequity in healthcare. The persons assessed to be most likely to lead a good life were males of Swedish origin, followed by females of Swedish origin. Persons with non-European origin were estimated to have the highest probability of experiencing discrimination. CONCLUSIONS: The nursing teachers were aware of discrimination and inequity in healthcare. They were able to estimate a fictive person’s life situation based on the limited knowledge of age, ethnicity and sex. This is important, as their values are pivotal in theoretical and practical nursing education. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12912-021-00762-5. BioMed Central 2021-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8638536/ /pubmed/34852806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-021-00762-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Holmström, Inger K Kaminsky, Elenor Höglund, Anna T Carlsson, Marianne A survey of nursing teachers’ awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care |
title | A survey of nursing teachers’ awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care |
title_full | A survey of nursing teachers’ awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care |
title_fullStr | A survey of nursing teachers’ awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care |
title_full_unstemmed | A survey of nursing teachers’ awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care |
title_short | A survey of nursing teachers’ awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care |
title_sort | survey of nursing teachers’ awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8638536/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34852806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-021-00762-5 |
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