Curry M D
Research Associate, Center for Health Services Research and Development, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Physicians Quadrangle, Bldg. N, Greenville, NC 27858-4354, USA.
J Natl Black Nurses Assoc. 2001 Dec;12(2):30-5.
With growing diversity in the nursing profession and in society, nursing educators face the challenge of selecting textbooks that promote cultural competence. A content analysis of photographs in nine health assessment textbooks was conducted in order to determine: 1) how accurately nurses and patients are presented in terms of race and gender; 2) how race and gender representations have changed over the last decade; and 3) how gender representations vary across different types of chapters within the texts. Although some recently published textbooks included a substantial proportion of photos of minority nurses, males and racial minorities were generally under-represented as nurses. Women and most ethnic minorities were consistently under-represented as patients. Female patients were also under-represented in cardiovascular and respiratory chapters and over-represented in chapters on reproduction. Nursing educators should screen visual images in textbooks for evidence of race and gender bias and inform publishers of the need for non-biased teaching materials.
随着护理行业和社会的多样性不断增加，护理教育工作者面临着选择能够促进文化能力的教科书的挑战。对九本健康评估教科书中的照片进行了内容分析，以确定：1）护士和患者在种族和性别方面的呈现准确性如何；2）在过去十年中，种族和性别的呈现方式有何变化；3）性别呈现在文本中不同类型的章节中如何变化。尽管一些最近出版的教科书包含了相当比例的少数族裔护士照片，但男性和少数族裔护士总体上代表性不足。女性和大多数少数族裔作为患者的代表性也一直不足。女性患者在心血管和呼吸章节中的代表性也不足，而在生殖章节中的代表性过高。护理教育工作者应筛选教科书中的视觉图像，以寻找种族和性别偏见的证据，并告知出版商需要无偏见的教材。
