Curriculum Design to Promote the Ethical Decision-Making Competence of Accelerated Bachelor’s Degree Nursing Students:

SAGE Open

Barbara B. DeSimone¹ 

关键词: nursing;    behavioral sciences;    health communication;    human communication;    communication studies;    social sciences;    cultural communication;    media;    society;    mass communication;    intercultural communication;    academics;    curriculum;    education;    education theory;    practice;    educational measurement;    assessment;    educational research;    higher education;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244016632285

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Few nursing curricula offer a course dedicated exclusively to ethical decision making. More often, ethical decision making is integrated into nursing courses and clinical experiences along with other course content. This article describes an accelerated bachelor’s degree nursing curriculum systematically organized to promote ethical decision-making competence from the first to the last nursing course. Examples of course objectives, ethical indicators, and teaching strategies emphasizing ethical decision making from trimester to trimester are outlined. A survey that assessed the similarities between critical thinking and ethical decision making perceived by faculty and students justified using critical thinking skills to measure ethical decision-making competence. t-Test calculations indicated significant improvement in the critical thinking scores of 100 students from four consecutive classes at the beginning and end of the nursing program. Examples of ethical questions examined by students are included. By integrating critical thinking skills throughout the nursing curriculum, faculty heightened the capacity of students to make and defend their own ethical decisions.

【 授权许可】

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