A critical review of social and health inequalities in the nursing curriculum

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 50, Issue , 2017, Pages 62-71

  Rozendo, Célia Alves ^a   Santos Salas, Anna ^b   Cameron, Brenda ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Nursing curriculum; Nursing education; Social inequalities

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CINAHL; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL SAFETY; CURRICULUM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MEDLINE; NURSING EDUCATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WEB OF SCIENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85006922965     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.12.006     Document Type: Review

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