Engelsk titel: Changing values in nursing
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Författare:
Rognstad MK
Email: MayKarin.Rognstad@su.hio.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 20
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 01103038
Sammanfattning
The purpose of this article is to
describe, attempt to explain and
discuss the change in values the
post-modern society has undergone
during the last 20 years.
The question is: How has the original
philosophy for choosing a
self-effacing calling altered?
In the late part of the 19th century
the church still played a
dominant role in the society.
Values such as charity and humility
were deeply rooted in the
population and compassion was
the motive for choosing a calling
such as nursing. The deaconesses
who dominated the nursing profession
at that time, thought it
important that the correct disposition
in nursing should be
prompted by a need to help, to
assist the sick and the suffering. A
little more than 100 years later
society has become pluralistic.
Technology solves many problems,
it attempts to eliminate
disease and suffering is shunned.
Students who choose nursing
education are characterized by a
diversity of views of life, ambivalence
and heterogenity. Their
objectives/motives for choosing
nursing are general and vague, in
that they state their wish to
become nurses is motivated by a
desire for contact with human
beings/to help others, to do
something useful for society.
There is reason to ask whether
the desire for human contact/to
help has another meaning for the
young students of today than it
had for the women who chose
nursing in earlier periods.