Engendering student empathy for disabled clients with urinary incontinence through experiential learning.
As part of a rehabilitation clinical course for senior baccalaureate nursing students, a disability-incontinence experiential learning activity is required. The assignment is intended to familiarize students with some of the challenges encountered by a client with mobility problems, including continence management issues using disposable undergarments. Wearing the undergarments dry and wet while being confined to a wheelchair provides insight and promotes empathy for patients with bladder control problems.
Karlowicz
Karen A
KA
Old Dominion University School of Nursing, Norfolk, VA, USA.
Palmer
Kay L
KL
D041382:Diapers, Adult; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000451:nursing*