title: Engendering student empathy for disabled clients with urinary incontinence through experiential learning.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Old Dominion University School of Nursing, Norfolk, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Karen A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Karlowicz
authors.forename: Kay L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Palmer
mesh_terms: 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*