Factors Affecting Nurses’ Impact on Social Justice in the Health System

Hosseinzadegan, Fariba; Jasemi, Madineh; Habibzadeh, Hossein

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“…1 Perceived discrimination and injustice lead to destructive behaviors on the part of nurses, doctors, and other members of healthcare teams, which, in turn, acts as an impediment to inter-professional cooperation and communication and lowers the quality of care. 9,10 Discrimination also has adverse effects on the motivation and satisfaction of healthcare team members, including nurses. 11 One of the biggest obstacles to nurses' socialization and one of the commonest forms of workplace discrimination is differentiating between nurses and doctors.…”

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Nurses’ perception of workplace discrimination

ZareKhafri¹,

Torabizadeh²,

Jaberi

2022

Nurs Ethics

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Background: Discrimination and injustice are big obstacles in nurses’ way to socialization and are among the major clinical challenges faced by nurses. Workplace discrimination is associated with such negative consequences as stress, fatigue, demoralization, loss of professional commitment, tension and conflicts at work, and resignation. A review of literature shows that not much research has been dedicated to workplace discrimination in nursing. Objective: This study aims to investigate nurses’ perception of workplace discrimination. Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the hospitals affiliated with a university of medical sciences in the largest city in the south of Iran in 2019. The participants consisted of 597 nurses who were selected through stratified random sampling. Data were collected using a researcher-made workplace discrimination questionnaire and analyzed in SPSS v. 21. Findings: The mean of the nurses’ workplace discrimination scores was found to be 102.57 ± 14.5, which is considered as moderate. The nurses’ mean scores for the dimensions of vertical and horizontal discrimination (44.53 ± 6.8), consequences of discrimination (20.52 ± 5.55), and unfair promotion (12.38 ± 2.44) were moderate. As for the two other dimensions of workplace discrimination, namely, gender discrimination (14.41 ± 3.28) and cultural-organizational discrimination (11.88 ± 2.99), the participants’ mean scores were low. There was a significant relationship between the nurses’ workplace discrimination mean score on the one hand and their employment status (p = 0.016) and work experience (p = 0.002) on the other. However, the nurses’ workplace discrimination mean score was not found to correlate with their level of education (p = 0.65), marital status (p = 0.274), and gender (p = 0.479). Ethical consideration: This study has been approved by the ethics committee of the university. All the participants had signed the written informed consent form before participation. Conclusion: Hospital managers should take measures to reduce discrimination and establish organizational justice to raise nurses’ morale and improve the quality of their performance as caregivers.

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Nurses’ perception of workplace discrimination

ZareKhafri¹,

Torabizadeh²,

Jaberi

2022

Nurs Ethics

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“…Among the major barriers to nurses' action on SDH, Reutter and Kushner mention the "dominant ideology of individual responsibility" ( [53] p. 275), and the emphasis on the "nurse-person relationship", rather than on population health and policy intervention [35] (p. 276). Additional barriers to nurses' action identified by Hosseinzadegan, Jasemi, and Habibzadeh [55] include insufficient professional authority, high workload and lack of resources, while their recommendations include attention to personal motivation and social engagement in recruitment.…”

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Global Health in Swedish Nursing Curricula: Navigating the Desirable and the Necessary

Wihlborg

Avery

2021

IJERPH

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Global health challenges are likely to be aggravated in the coming years by rapid climate change and environmental degradation. To address the resulting health inequities, nurses need an integrated understanding of environmental and social determinants of health. This study adopts an explorative inductive approach to examine how global health and sustainability are expressed the course syllabi of undergraduate nursing programmes (n = 24) in Sweden. After excluding biomedical and other unrelated content, 67 syllabi were selected for a thematic analysis. Results indicate that global health, the social determinants of health and sustainability tend to appear in a fragmented manner in the syllabi. Global health content is often limited, relegated to elective courses, or altogether missing. A theoretical framework is lacking, and focus lies on an individual rather than structural perspective. Based on international policy, earlier studies on undergraduate nursing education and theoretical work, suggestions are made for how global health and sustainability content could be integrated into nursing education, notably by using a structural competency approach.

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“…Fair and non-discriminatory behaviors between physicians and nurses can increase job motivation, quality and satisfaction, and ultimately improve patient care [ 6 ]. Although in recent decades several quantitative and qualitative studies have been conducted to establish the concept of social justice among nursing graduates [7-10], it seems that academic nursing education has not been successful in this issue as Hosseinzadegan et al, (2021) in his studies indicates that lots of nursing students (in Iran) feel discrimination in both theoretical and practical courses [ 11 ].…”

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Nursing students’ experiences of educational discrimination: a qualitative study

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Background Although the need for justice and the elimination of injustice (or discrimination) is now a universally accepted principle, discrimination is still an unpleasant experience for many nursing students. This study aimed to explain the experiences of nursing students of educational discrimination and find out the main factors that cause this feeling. Methods This is a qualitative study conducted in the nursing faculty of Shahr-e-Kord and the Iran university of medical science (IUMS) in Iran. Twelve nursing students were selected by purposeful sampling method and data were collected through face-to-face and in-depth interviews with semi-structured questions. All interviews were analyzed according to the content analysis method. Results Three main themes and ten subcategories appeared. Extracted themes include: "inappropriate behavior of nursing professors (or instructors) " with 3 subcategories (1- discriminatory behavior by nursing professors (or instructors), 2- lack of sufficient self-confidence in nursing professors and transferring it to the student, and 3- the educator role in motivating or eliminating motivation); "Strict rules" with 3 subcategories (1- inequality in implementation of rights and rules among students of different disciplines, 2- differences in compliance with laws and regulations, and 3- nurses are being strictly monitored), and " Lack of nursing professional independence " with 4 subcategories (1- lack of authority, 2- lack of supportive organizations for nurses, 3- lack of proper social status of nursing in society, and 4- the high authority and power of physicians over other disciplines). Conclusions In our study, it was shown that nursing students feel the most discrimination in front of medical students. Feelings of discrimination reduce self-confidence in nursing students. Therefore, nursing educators and professors must think of a solution, or at least they should not cause this feeling in them through inappropriate behavior and discriminatory speech and words.

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Factors Affecting Nurses’ Impact on Social Justice in the Health System

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

Nurses’ perception of workplace discrimination

Nurses’ perception of workplace discrimination

Global Health in Swedish Nursing Curricula: Navigating the Desirable and the Necessary

Nursing students’ experiences of educational discrimination: a qualitative study

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