Original Research

Introducing human rights and health into a nursing curriculum

P. Mayers
Curationis | Vol 30, No 4 | a1117 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/curationis.v30i4.1117 | © 2007 P. Mayers | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 28 September 2007 | Published: 28 September 2007

About the author(s)

P. Mayers, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Full Text:

PDF (373KB)

Abstract

An important component of nursing programmes in South Africa has been teaching of the principles of ethical practice and relevant ethical codes. A number of factors have contributed to the need to include human rights as an integral component of nursing curricula in South Africa. These include the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of South Africa and the implications thereof for health care delivery, the primary health care approach in the delivery of health care in South Africa, the development and acceptance o f Patients’ Rights Charters, and the recognition of the role that health professionals played - whether through lack of knowledge and awareness or direct involvement - in the human rights violations in the health sector exposed during the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Keywords

No related keywords in the metadata.

Metrics

Total abstract views: 4723
Total article views: 5211

 

Crossref Citations

1. Human rights education in patient care
Joanna N. Erdman
Public Health Reviews  vol: 38  issue: 1  year: 2017  
doi: 10.1186/s40985-017-0061-8

2. Health and Human Rights: New challenges for social responsiveness
Leslie London, Marion Heap, Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven
Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement  vol: 2  first page: 61  year: 2009  
doi: 10.5130/ijcre.v2i0.1165

3. Ethical problems in practice as experienced by Malawian student nurses
Eva Merethe Solum, Veronica Mary Maluwa, Elisabeth Severinsson
Nursing Ethics  vol: 19  issue: 1  first page: 128  year: 2012  
doi: 10.1177/0969733011412106

4. Training Trainers in health and human rights: Implementing curriculum change in South African health sciences institutions
Elena G Ewert, Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven, Leslie London
BMC Medical Education  vol: 11  issue: 1  year: 2011  
doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-11-47

5. Creating a Human Rights Culture in a Master’s in Social Work Program
Sarah Richards-Desai, Filomena Critelli, Patricia Logan-Greene, Elizabeth Borngraber, Elyse Heagle
Journal of Human Rights and Social Work  vol: 3  issue: 4  first page: 169  year: 2018  
doi: 10.1007/s41134-018-0059-2

6. Human rights education for nursing students: A scoping review
Elisabeth Irene Karlsen Dogan, Laura Terragni, Anne Raustøl
Nursing Ethics  vol: 32  issue: 4  first page: 1177  year: 2025  
doi: 10.1177/09697330241284096

7. Reproductive health policy saga: Restrictive abortion laws in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), unnecessary cause of maternal mortality
Ngo Valery Ngo, Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta, Nduma Basil, Estella Tembe Fokunang, Sidonnie Eyambe Mbong, Keziah Ezra, Henry Ngwa Che, Emmanuel Sabo Umbugadu
Health Care for Women International  vol: 45  issue: 1  first page: 5  year: 2024  
doi: 10.1080/07399332.2021.1994971

8. Conflict, Complicity, and Challenges: Reflections on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Health Sector Hearing
Glenda Wildschut, Pat M. Mayers
Journal of Nursing Scholarship  vol: 51  issue: 3  first page: 299  year: 2019  
doi: 10.1111/jnu.12438

9. Student nurses' experience of learning about the right to food: Situated professional development within clinical placement
Elisabeth Irene Karlsen Dogan, Laura Terragni, Anne Raustøl
Nurse Education Today  vol: 98  first page: 104692  year: 2021  
doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104692