Nursing ethics and the Holocaust: pilot of an innovation in teaching. Issue 2 (3rd April 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shields, Linda; Manning, Jennifer; McAllister, Margaret; O'Brien, Darren; Shields, Kirril; Emeto, Theophilus I.; Brien, Donna Lee; Murray, John; Benedict, Susan
• Is Part Of: Holocaust studies. Volume 28:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 121
• Page End: 142
• Publication Date: 2022-04-03
• Subjects: Nursing -- Fog in August -- Holocaust -- Nazi 'euthanasia'; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 940.5318
• DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1906077
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1750-4902

Abstract

ABSTRACT: More nurses than doctors killed in the Holocaust but are little studied. In Nazi 'euthanasia' institutional patients, with others, were killed by nurses. A German film, Fog in August (2016), tells of a boy caught in Nazi 'euthanasia'. We piloted the film to increase knowledge about nurses in Nazi 'euthanasia'. In Australia, 21 participants (health professionals, community members) completed pre-and-post questionnaires testing levels of knowledge. Knowledge increased – median post-score (1.75) > pre-score (1.0), median of differences 0.5 ( p = 0.001). This film effectively increased knowledge, and the study methods worked. We will develop a project to teach nurses about genocides.