title: Using rehabilitation theory to teach medical-surgical nursing to undergraduate students.
abstract: Medical-surgical nursing has been taught at the undergraduate level using several approaches (Bocchi, Pessuto, & Dell'Aqua, 1996; Hinzman, 1996). Although a review of the literature indicates that nursing schools have had some success offering classes that focus on rehabilitation principles and theory, there is no literature about medical-surgical nursing that is taught from a rehabilitation perspective. This article describes an undergraduate medical-surgical nursing course that teaches students how to care for the chronically ill using rehabilitation theory and principles.
authors.affiliation: Marymount University, Arlington, VA, USA. leslie.neal@marymount.edu
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Neal
mesh_terms: D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching