Issues and Ethics in Gerontic Nursing

Gunter, Laurie M.; Heckman, Lois H; Moser, Dorothy H.; Fasano, Marie A

doi:10.3928/0098-9134-19791101-04

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“…On the other hand, the nursing profession, more particularly the university-based baccalaureate nursing education program, has been very much influenced by developments in the United States where nursing has decided that it has something to offer different from the medical profession and that this can be delivered quite independently. Nursing claims to offer a community care, self help, prevention and wellness oriented application with an emphasis on functional change as distinct from the co-called medical model which is said to be institutional in its focus, dependent on drugs, and oriented towards treatment, disease and pathology (Stone, 1980;Gunter et al, 1979). As a part of our study on health care costs (Gross and Schwenger, 1981) a member of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Western Ontario was asked to do a study on the gerontological and geriatric curricula of the 13 Baccalaureate Programs in all 8 University Schools of Nursing in Ontario (Mantle, 1978).…”

Section: Health Care Of the Elderlymentioning

confidence: 99%

Professionalization of Health Care for the Aged

Schwenger

1982

Can. J. Aging

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The following paper is presented from a Canadian and an Ontario point of view. In our country we have a tendency either to accept both the American and British ways of doing things or to take a position somewhere in between. For example, one can find advocates for either leaving out or keeping the “e” in ag(e)ing. On the other hand, after much wrangling, we have neither accepted the British specialty of geriatric medicine nor what appears to have become the American position not to have such a specialty but finally have opted for geriatrics becoming a subspecialty of internal medicine. It is questionable sometimes whether we are picking the best or worst of both worlds or what can in fact be labelled as essentially Canadian.

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Section: Health Care Of the Elderlymentioning

confidence: 99%