Changing practice: are memes the answer?
Nurses are insistent that they have a great deal more to offer than being merely doctors handmaidens. This article examines how nursing education and practice can be changed by increasing our knowledge of 'memes'--the cultural equivalent of genes--and the ways traditional beliefs are passed down to generations of nurses.
Pediani
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University College of St Martin's, Lancaster.
Walsh
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D003469:Culture; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational