A survey of nursing teachers' awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care.

ABSTRACT:

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' estimatio

SUBMITTER: Holmstrom IK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8638536 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature