title: Reflective practice: nursing ethics through story telling.
abstract: Reflection is a method of learning and teaching professional maturity through the critical analysis of experience. An illuminative research approach was used over a period of five years in collaboration with students on a palliative care course to investigate the effects of learning moral and ethical reasoning by reliving clinical experiences through story telling. This study concludes that: self-concept is enhanced; communication skills are increased; and insight development is part of learning to reason fairly and ethically, and is achieved through a cathartic process, leading to the conceptualization and discovery of theories of nursing through reflective practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, University of East London, UK.
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authors.lastname: Durgahee
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D004989:Ethics; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D033262:Narration; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009736:Nursing Process; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013727:Terminal Care; D013850:Thinking