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Re-valuing nursing's currency: shifting away from hierarchical binary opposition
Amy Miner Ross1, Diane Fotheringham2, Kristen Crusoe3
1Oregon Health & Science University, School of Nursing, Mail Code: SN-6S, 3455 SW US Veterans Hospital Rd., Portland, OR 97239, United States.
Abstract:
This paper starts a discussion amongst nurse educators internationally regarding the nature of curricula for initial nursing licensure. Nursing is compelled by traditional views of nursing into taking a long-established and expected place in the health care hierarchy, which is reflected in current curricula. In order to establish a re-valued nursing currency within healthcare, nursing educators are required to re-examine these established norms and re-design these curricula, based on the premise that nursing is now set in a complex and unpredictable system.
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