Nursing Education

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Nursing Education

This paper links learning goals to the phenomenological approach in nursing education.

960 words () | 3 sources | APA | 2007 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that learning goals consist of discovering meanings, identifying patterns and achieving new and unusual interpretations of personal experiences. The author points out that the phenomenological pedagogy, which is based totally on the lived experiences of both students and teachers, focuses on the process of dialogue and reflexivity. The paper relates that one form of the phenomenological approach is narrative pedagogy and that the narrative approach can assist nursing students in understanding the apparent gap between studying theory and learning clinical skills.

From the Paper:

"Through the narrative approach, I learned to reflect deeply on such issues as suffering. I structured the experience on paper and then reflected on the structure and on what appeared to be the most important aspects of the narrative. At the same time, it was only when I shared this experience with others that insights began to develop. I discovered that other nursing students and nurses had encountered the same types of experiences from which meaning seemed impossible to extract."

Sample of Sources Used:

Eifried, S. (2003). Bearing witness to suffering: The lived experience of nursing students. Journal of Nursing Education, 42 (2), 59-67.
Ironside, P. (2001). Creating a research base for nursing education: An interpretive review of conventional, critical, feminist, postmodern, and phenomenological pedagogies. Advances in Nursing Science, 23 (3), 72-87.
Young, L. & Paterson, B. (2007). Teaching nursing: Developing a student-centered leaning environment. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.