Journal article
Teaching nursing’s history: A national survey of Australian Schools of Nursing, 2007–2008
Nurse Education Today, Vol.30(4), pp.370-375
2010
Abstract
This paper reports on a survey of Australian Schools of Nursing that took place over an 8 months period between 2007 and 2008. This study was implemented to extend understanding of effective teaching of nursing history, an area not previously researched in Australia. A critical interpretive method enabled us to problematise the issue, to highlight what was said about the importance of history teaching as well as ad hoc practices and barriers. The study found that participants value history of nursing teaching, but the crowded curriculum is erasing history's place and potential. It revealed ideological tensions shaping and constraining history of nursing teaching. In Australia, the way nursing's history is taught varies and teaching content, strategies and resources utilised are not evenly available. Pedagogical innovations are not effectively disseminated. Our recommendations for Australian Schools of Nursing that have more general applicability are: (1) Nursing curriculum needs to be developed from a set of principles and standards that define the attributes of the professional nurse, not in response to interest groups and (2) History of nursing pedagogy should be systematically developed and disseminated through a national virtual centre, linked to international centres, to enhance teachers' understanding of the discipline area and to support their teaching practice.
Details
- Title
- Teaching nursing’s history: A national survey of Australian Schools of Nursing, 2007–2008
- Authors
- Margaret McAllister (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and EducationW Madsen (Author) - Central Queensland UniversityJ Godden (Author) - University of SydneyJ Greenhill (Author) - Flinders UniversityRachel Reed (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
- Publication details
- Nurse Education Today, Vol.30(4), pp.370-375
- Publisher
- Churchill Livingstone
- Date published
- 2010
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.09.010
- ISSN
- 0260-6917
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449796502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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