How the public perceives the “good nurse” in China: A content analysis of national newspapers

作者：Xiao Chen, Yu Du, Zhiyun Shen, Wei Qin, Yuxia Zhang · 发表于：Journal of Nursing Scholarship · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1111/jnu.12928 · 被引用次数：11 · 研究领域：Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership、Nursing education and management、Nursing Roles and Practices

INTRODUCTION: Newspapers are a predominant channel through which the Chinese public learns about nurses and the nursing profession. However, little nursing research has been performed in China to investigate the newspaper portrayal of nurses, and how the public perceives the role of nurses in the Chinese context is still an ambiguous phenomenon. This study aimed to clarify the public portrayals of nurses in China, and to analyze whether there are changes over time in news content related to nurses in the national newspapers. DESIGN: A content analysis of the newspaper articles citing nurses that have been published since each newspaper was established. METHOD: We selected two national daily newspapers as sources to systematically search for articles about nurses from 1949 to 2022. A coding instrument was developed to quantitatively extract the contents of the articles identified. Then, using a mixed methods approach, we analyzed newspaper content to show the roles of nurses presented to the public by the media. RESULTS: A total of 317 articles were analyzed. Nurses have been depicted with heterogeneous images in both newspapers with positive wordings and up to 28 types of public images. More than half of the articles portrayed two, three, or more types of images. Among the images of nurses identified, "overworked" appeared the most frequently, followed by "dedicated," "philanthropic and benevolent," and "with a sense of responsibility," and then "technically skilled." By anal...