PubMed · 10081194
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J Knaus. 1999. NP program missing content in practice.. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1547-5069.1999.tb00397.x
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This study is concerned with "The Familiarity of Basic Rules in Professional Ethics Amongst Nursing Staff Members". Here the codification of norms in professional ethics is understood to be a necessary step on the way to individual nursing ethics. A survey on the study topic showed that there is a lack of familiarity in Germany. Therefore the authors conclude that German nursing has not yet reached this level of individual ethics. As it became clear in the survey that there is a general request for more information, the authors feel bound to demand better coverage of the topic in both basic and further training. The ethics of nursing, however, are applied ethics. In the following discourse first of all the authors will define the term "ethics" and explain the characteristics which are of importance in the present day situation. Secondly, they will ask what "applied ethics" can be against this background. Finally, the authors will discuss what "norms" are as regards professional ethics, how and why they develop and of what relevance they may be with respect to the corresponding ethics applied.
There has been increasing recent interest in student nurse attrition. Despite a long history of research into the problem, attrition rates remain a cause for concern. This paper presents a review of the research undertaken in the UK, together with an international comparison. The foci of previous studies have been diverse and have included investigation of students' leaving reasons, their experience of stress, and course-related difficulties of students in progress. This review illustrates the complexity of issues surrounding student nurse discontinuation, highlighting a number of methodological limitations of prior research. These include the lack of a common definition of attrition, low response rates in surveys, and the imprecise definition of categories of leaving reasons. There is also a dearth of studies based on the perspectives of students. In the UK there is little documentation of whether measures have been adopted to reduce attrition and there is no evidence of evaluation. If future research is to be aimed at reducing attrition, these conceptual and methodological issues need to be addressed.
This article describes part of a follow-up study to Smith's (1992) original work on emotional labour, at a time when questions of the role, scope and crisis in nursing are a matter of local and national debate (Bradshaw 1999, Gillan 1999, Fabricius 1999, Feldman et al. 1999). The article addresses recent changes in nursing and nurse education (UKCC 1986, UKCC 1999a, DoH 1999, UKCC 1999b) as a means of exploring new patterns of learning to care in nursing. Less than a decade ago, emotional labour and helping students learn to care was part of the role of the sister/charge nurse (Ogier 1982, Fretwell 1982, Smith 1992). In this study, the role of the link lecturer, and mentor who currently shape the student nurse's learning experience, is the focus for evaluation.