Open AccessThe ward sister as a health educator
Author(s) -
Valerie Woodward
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
curationis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2223-6279
pISSN - 0379-8577
DOI - 10.4102/curationis.v3i1.214
Subject(s) - sister , disease , health education , medicine , nursing , psychology , family medicine , medical education , sociology , public health , pathology , anthropology
According to Thomson, hospital patients form a target group of particular importance for the health educator because: — the patients suffering from a particular disease are a motivated group so far as education related to their illness is concerned, and — hospital patients are restricted to a certain environment for comparatively long periods of time in many instances, and thus represent a captive group for health education