title: Wrestling with the larger picture: placing ethical behavior in clinical situations in context.
abstract: 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).
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Ryden
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Waithe
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Crisham
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Caplan
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Duckett
mesh_terms: 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