{"id":2959,"date":"2015-05-16T16:03:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T13:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal-ene.gr\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:44:21","slug":"designing-of-an-edicational-programme-for-nurses-and-nursing-students-to-ensure-the-deafs-right-to-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/designing-of-an-edicational-programme-for-nurses-and-nursing-students-to-ensure-the-deafs-right-to-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing of an edicational programme for nurses and nursing students to ensure the deaf&#8217;s right to health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Acknowledgements:<\/strong> We would like to thank mr Nikolaos Galanis, prof Panagiota Sourtzi, mr Konstantinos\u00a0Galanis, ms. Maria Tsekoura, ms Fotini Skafida, mr Georgios Kampouroglou for their contribution to the\u00a0pilot testing of the educational programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Deaf sign language users face limited access to health information and health care and an\u00a0increased risk concerning medication safety, mainly because of communication barriers with health\u00a0professionals. Such problems and risks could be mitigated by properly educated nurses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Aim:<\/strong> To design and pilot test an educational programme for nurses and nursing students to ensure the\u00a0deafs\u2019 right in better health care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Material and Methods:<\/strong> Literature was searched for education curricula of teaching greek sign language\u00a0as a foreign language and for educational programmes for health profesionals and students on deafness\u00a0awareness, deaf culture and other aspects that arise when caring for deaf patients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Results:<\/strong> By synthesising the literature findings, an educational programme for nurses and nursing students\u00a0was designed and pilot tested. The educational programme contains issues related to the culture, the\u00a0rights and the particular needs of deaf people on health care settings. It also includes courses to acquire\u00a0knowledge and communication skills in greek sign language, focused on the communication needs of the\u00a0nurse when caring for deaf patients. The duration of the education is 30 hours (10 courses).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Conclusions &#8211; Discussion:<\/strong> It is the first time that a relevant education programme for nurses and nursing\u00a0students is applied. From the pilot testing it seems that the participants\u2019 awareness and acquired knowledge\u00a0and skills about deafness were increased so that nurses will be able to improve the health care provided\u00a0to deaf patients. Future educational programmes could use the strong points and improve any weaknesses\u00a0of this educational programme, when the results of its evaluation will be available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Key words:<\/strong> Education, deaf, sign language, nursing, health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acknowledgements: We would like to thank mr Nikolaos Galanis, prof Panagiota Sourtzi, mr Konstantinos\u00a0Galanis, ms. Maria Tsekoura, ms Fotini Skafida, mr Georgios Kampouroglou for their contribution<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[594],"tags":[2370,2369,1702],"eidos-arthrou":[1807],"keyword":[2371,1925,1888,1936,2372],"language":[1842],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iss_3_4","tag-athina-kalokerinou","tag-martha-velonaki","tag-venetia-sofia-velonaki","eidos-arthrou-erevnitika-arthra","keyword-deaf","keyword-education","keyword-health","keyword-nursing","keyword-sign-language","language-greek"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9665,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/9665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"eidos-arthrou","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eidos-arthrou?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}