Wrestling with the larger picture: placing ethical behavior in clinical situations in context.
This article provides an account of the use of a model-building process as an educational strategy for the teaching of ethics. Designed to integrate students' growing knowledge and skill in nursing with their intellectual and professional development, this model-building process has its theoretical foundations in cognitive moral development theory, and in an integrative approach to nursing education called Multi-Course Sequential Learning (MCSL).
Ryden
M B
MB
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Waithe
M E
ME
Crisham
P
P
Caplan
A
A
Duckett
L
L
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003657:Decision Making; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D035863:Moral Development; D009014:Morals; D013663:Teaching