The visibility of the discipline on the websites of academic nursing schools |
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| Authors: | Martin S. McNamara Gerard M. Fealy Ruth Geraghty |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan;2. Michigan Congenital Heart Outcomes Research and Discovery Unit, Ann Arbor, Michigan;3. Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan;4. Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;5. Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;6. Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan;1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Kwandong University College of Medicine, Gyunggi, South Korea;2. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Rehabilitation Institute of Muscular Disease, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea;3. Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea;1. College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China;2. Zhicheng College of Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China;3. College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China;4. Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Network Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, Fuzhou 350116, China;1. School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;2. Department of Women''s Health Services, Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, OH;3. College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH;4. College of Nursing, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO;5. College of Nursing, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI |
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| Abstract: | Critical discourse analysis was used to examine the visibility of nursing as a distinct discipline on the websites of academic nursing schools in Ireland. The analysis focused on the content of the schools’ websites, including the available undergraduate curricular materials. The websites of a purposive sample of academic nursing schools in Canada, Scandinavia, and Australia were also analyzed for comparative purposes. The texts revealed that the disciplinary distinctiveness of nursing was only minimally represented on nearly all of the Irish nursing schools’ websites. There was little evidence that nursing theory was informing the form and content of nursing programs. Instead, there was evidence of eclecticism in their form and content, with much reliance on imported knowledge from other disciplines. In contrast, nursing’s disciplinary specialism was coherently and clearly articulated in website texts of the selected Canadian, Scandinavian, and Australian schools. Representations of nursing on official websites convey important messages to prospective students and to the public about the self-conceptualisation of nursing, including its knowledge forms and knowledge claims. |
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