Exploring Learning

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Exploring Learning Teaching Ethics in the
Nursing Curriculum

• Janet Holt
• School of Healthcare
• University of Leeds

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Introduction

• Developed from ESIG discussions about identifying
  and disseminating good practice.
• What is good practice in teaching ethics?
• How is ethics taught to nurses?
• Ethical dilemmas are universal in healthcare
• Identified by NMC in competencies to be achieved
  for entry to the register
• Aim of the project
• To identify core ethics content, learning and
  teaching methods and process of facilitation in
  the UK nursing curriculum

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Objectives

• To review methods of learning and teaching of
  ethics in the nursing curriculum to identify
  aspects of good practice
• To initiate discussion and interaction between
  teachers of ethics to nurses so as to
  collectively agree and specify current best
  practice and in particular those activities that
  address the wider concepts of healthcare ethics
  law
• By use of effective dissemination strategies to
  raise awareness of this subject throughout the
  nursing ethics community and so to engage the
  community in a process of reflection and change

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Sample

• 68 institutions offering pre-registration nursing
  programmes identified from NMAS UCAS
• Purposive sampling technique identifying key
  contact in each institution.
• 61 contacts identified
• 47 responses (75 response rate)

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Data Collection

• Descriptive postal survey
• Questionnaire
• Themes
• No of students
• Learning teaching methods
• When ethics is taught
• Shared learning
• Assessment
• Lecturers and qualifications
• Subjects taught

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Programmes

• Programmes
• Degree
• 42 institutions (89)
• Diploma/Advanced Diploma
• 41 (87)
• Postgraduate certificate
• 11 (23)

• Student numbers
• Min Max
• Degree 10 500
• Dip/Ad Dip 15 900
• PGCert 10 80

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Findings

• Full report available from
• http//www.health.heacademy.ac.uk/sig/ethics/
• Three interesting findings
• Traditional approaches to learning and teaching
  are favoured
• Traditional modes of assessment
• Infrequent use of shared learning

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Modules
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Learning teaching strategies
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Learning teaching strategies

• Other strategies identified
• Problem based learning
• Work Based learning
• Group discussion
• Enquiry based learning
• Use of videos, slides, film and art

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Shared learning
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Assessment
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Discussion of findings

• Discussion on the following
• The prevalence of traditional approaches to
  learning and teaching are favoured
• Why traditional modes of assessment are used
• Infrequent use of shared learning