Nurse education today
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Nurse education today · Jun 1991
Nursing students attitudes toward AIDS: implications for education.
Increasingly, nursing students will be caring for patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), as the disease reaches epidemic proportions. This study examined the attitudes of 87 senior baccalaureate nursing students toward caring for these patients. A 37-item researcher developed Likert scale instrument was administered and addressed five themes: (1) direct care of the AIDS patient, (2) students' rights, (3) educational preparation, (4) patients' rights and (5) general beliefs about AIDS. ⋯ Significantly more positive responses occurred in all areas among students who had actually cared for patients with AIDS. Findings have implications for development of teaching strategies and curricular approaches to address this health care issue. Data also provide a basis for educational and organisational policy formation.
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The terms psychodrama, sociodrama, and didactic psychodrama are defined. These three action techniques are compared with respect to their differing goals and methodologies. ⋯ It is concluded that sociodrama and didactic psychodrama are powerful action learning methods that can be successfully employed with junior student psychiatric nurses. It is also acknowledged that the underlying rationale, and procedural details of these two methods differ from, those associated with more conventional social skills based training approaches, and these differences have implications for trainers.
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Nurse education today · Feb 1990
Conscience and courage--a critical examination of professional conduct.
The roots of professional power and authority lie in the claim to a specific kind of knowledge, the 'knowledge that' and the 'knowledge how'. These kinds of knowledge are included in the notion of 'science'. 'Knowledge why'- the justification for a professional action - demands a moral argument in terms of what is known and can be done (taking 'scientific' knowledge into account) but most importantly asking whether it ought to be done. ⋯ The question is raised whether an appeal to the individual conscience can be a reliable guide to a morally justifiable action. An exploration of moral perceptions, moral reasoning and moral argument needs to be part of a professional education which requires a certain kind of courage on part of both teachers and students.
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Nursing education faces a period of change within the next decade. Blueprints for educational change have been developed in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Change in education needs to be planned rather than a reaction to internal or external pressures. ⋯ Plans for preparing adult educators competent in the use of modern technology, are a necessary adjunct to new programme development. Education also needs to be available to the practising nurse to enable professional growth. Professional associations must play a role in educating nurses, other professionals and consumers of nursing care on the changing roles and functions of the nurse, as movement is made toward the goal of 'Health For All By The Year 2000'.