Teaching Theories and Nursing

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The purpose of this paper is to apply a learning theory to an actual educational case study and scenario, as seen from the point of view of the nursing student. Nurses are faced with moral and ethical issues every day especially when it comes to building a relationship of trust with the patient. Therefore, this paper reviews the everyday challenges faced by nurses attempting to make the right moral decision.

Contents:
Introduction
Case Study: A Nurse's Dilemma, Challenging Scenario
Events and Indications of a Challenging Scenario for Student Nurses
John Dewey's Teaching Theory and Nursing
Possible Interventions
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"From the case study proposed by Joan Callahan (1988), imagine now that you are a nurse on a medical/surgical floor in a large private hospital (p. 4). A woman is admitted on a Sunday for a series of medical tests you are assigned as her primary nurse. The testing begins on Monday and you are off for the next few days. You return to work the following Saturday and resume your duties as the woman's primary nurse. When you arrive on the floor, you go over her chart and find that the tests have revealed that she has chronic lymphocytic leukemia and is being transfused in an attempt to put the disease into remission. As you approach her that morning she greets you happily and asks you if you know when she will be able to return to work given her diagnosis you are a bit puzzled by her exuberance and you judiciously reply that you have not seen her physician since her return to work but that you will talk with the physician about her d/c from the hospital."

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