Traditional or systematic nursing? An evaluation of the written curricula of registered and enrolled nurses in Finland.
In order to develop the professional identity of registered nurses (RNs) and enrolled nurses (ENs), it is essential that the core of the written curricula be based on nursing science. In this study, content analysis was used to examine how theoretically-developed elements of nursing education were taken into consideration in the curricula (one local and one nationwide curriculum were analysed). The research questions were: 1. to what extent do the characteristics of either traditional or of systematic nursing appear in the educational objectives of nursing education? 2. to what extent do the characteristics of systematic nursing appear in the curricula, and as distinct elements in the objectives of nursing education? The written nursing curricula which were analysed seem to be characterised by traditional nursing, while features of systematic nursing appear as minor elements only.
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D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005387:Finland; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015402:Nursing Education Research / Q000379:methods; D009736:Nursing Process; D009743:Nursing, Practical / Q000193:education*