Nursing in Russia: Steps Forward for the Profession

Perceptions of Caring Between Slovene and Russian Members of Nursing Teams

“…Due to the increasing mobility of nurses, patients, and students, our results contribute to nursing education, suggesting that Slovenia and the Russian Federation should promote caring in their education in order that the nursing workforce becomes comparable with other EU countries and worldwide. The trends in the health services in the Russian Federation are for providing efficient approaches (Goodyear, 2012). In health care systems such as in Slovenia and the Russian Federation—which face low nursing staff levels and where an emphasis is placed more on diagnostics and therapeutics than on the psychological, spiritual, and social aspects of care—the change to so-called noncaring trends is challenging (Pajnkihar et al, 2017).…”

“…In the Russian Federation, the biomedical model has a stronger influence on nursing education than in Slovenia. Nursing education in Russia has been provided by physicians until recently when the trend has started to change and more qualified nurse educators are in teaching positions (Goodyear, 2012). History could affect perception of caring, but this also needs further research.…”

“…Previous research showed that patients in Slovenia feel depersonalized, dissatisfied, wishing for a more human, individual approach with focus on caring for patients, and not only focusing on assuring physical and psychosocial needs (Pajnkihar, 2003). The Russian government is working on improving the health care system and services to become similar to Western systems, especially in comparison with the U.S. system (Goodyear, 2012). Therefore research on what nurses perceive as caring is needed.…”

“…Slovenian and Russian societies are very individualistic with prevailing feminine values, being used to the state taking care of people (Prašnikar, Pahor, & Svetlik, 2008). As mentioned by Goodyear (2012), there is still a very strong governmental influence on the health care system development in Russia in comparison with most Western countries, including Slovenia. Knapp, Norton, and Rihn (2009) also mentioned the different way of life and different mind-set of nurses and the general population when comparing Russia with the United States.…”

An international cross-cultural study of nursing students' perceptions of caring

“…In the Russian Federation, there is an even stronger influence of biomedical model on nursing practice (Pajnkihar et al, 2018). Nurse education has been until recently provided by physicians (Goodyear, 2012). Several nursing theories of Nightingale, Henderson, Orem, Roy, Allen and Neuman were introduced to nursing, however they are rarely used in practice and education, especially due to the lack of literature in Russian language (McKenna et al, 2014).…”