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Another book changed voluntarily by the publisher is Pearson's 2017 Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning:
Pearson vows to remove material amid uproar over advice on how nursing students should evaluate people by their racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds.
Education in the health professions has for many years included instruction on the importance of asking patients about their backgrounds and beliefs, which may relate to understanding conditions they are experiencing and inform possible treatments. But those who teach future nurses and doctors stress that background is but one characteristic of a person, and that assuming too much based on such backgrounds can be insulting and even dangerous to patients.
Best practice is not to simply offer health professions students lists of stereotypes by racial, ethnic and religious groups. So when word spread last week about a section of a nursing textbook that did just that, many were horrified. Pearson, the publisher, pledged to remove the content.
In a section on pain, Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning offered the following guidance:
- "Hispanics may believe that pain is a form of punishment and that suffering must be endured if they are to enter heaven."
- "Jews may be vocal and demanding of assistance."
- "Native Americans may prefer to receive medications that have been blessed by a tribal shaman."
- "Blacks often report higher pain intensity than other cultures."
- "Indians who follow Hindu practices believe that pain must be endured in preparation for a better life in the next cycle."
