Course: Nursing in Crisis? Exploring Current Challenges

Congratulations on completing this free two-week taster course of the MSc Nursing degree offered by Coventry University.  In Week 1, you identified the key challenges in nursing and explored the …

Nurses play an important role in providing healthcare around the world and, in some countries, form more than 50% of the healthcare workforce. They are a fundamental component of front-line …

In this peer review activity you are encouraged to design a strategy aimed at increasing recruitment of qualified nurses. Having considered the many challenges facing nursing, you now have a …

For us, a critique of the context of culture in which nurses are portrayed is important. In this step and the following two steps you will see different portrayals of …

Stress in nursing has been widely studied. In this article, Kim Craig provides an overview of the research. Nursing is a demanding occupation, emotionally and physically. Workplace stress in nursing …

Male nurses are generally not as common as female nurses. Nor are they particularly common in film or literary contexts, which means that you may never have been treated by …

Nurses in various guises are scattered throughout literature and other media. Nurse Gamp is portrayed in Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit as a scruffy, fat and uncaring woman with a red …

Nurses are portrayed in film in different ways, depending on the narrative to be created. In this step and the following two steps you will see different images of nurses. …

Evidence suggests that the professional image of nurses is influenced by: gender stereotypes caring and culture media portrayal, and behaviour. Your task Share your perspectives of how these influences apply …

The professional image of nurses and nursing is thought by some to have contributed to a reduction in the initial recruitment and retention of nurses. It is, and always has …

Over the last two weeks we have examined issues of stress, violence, professional image, migration, education and pay in nursing and how they contribute to a global nursing shortage. Through …

Thank you for joining us. We hope that you enjoyed the learning experience. This course is part of the online MSc Nursing offered by Coventry University on the FutureLearn platform. …

In this video, Kim Craig concludes by highlighting some of the main areas covered during the course. At the beginning of the course we asked a big question: what is …

We began the course by introducing the key issues of stress, shortages, economics and politics, moving on to migration and professional image in Week 2. In the final activity for …