title: The viewing room: A lens for developing ethical comportment.
abstract: Healthcare is dynamic and complex, and against this background, nursing students must negotiate the transition from lay person to healthcare professional. Diverse life experiences and learning styles can further complicate this journey of transformation. The contemporary role of the nurse includes caring for and making clinical decisions about patients based on ethical principles. Learning about and integrating ethical comportment as part of the transformative journey requires nurse educators to create and implement learning experiences that challenge nursing students to think deeply and broadly about the experiences they encounter, to question their previous assumptions and prejudices, to consider the world of healthcare through a new lens, and to reflect on and learn from the process. The judicious use of film has the potential to assist students to recognize and develop ethical comportment as they prepare for real-world clinical practice experiences. In this paper, we present three film exemplars and related teaching strategies designed to facilitate transformative learning and development of ethical comportment.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Central Queensland University, Noosa, QLD 4556, Australia. Electronic address: M.mcallister@cqu.edu.au.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McAllister
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia. Electronic address: Tracy.Levett-jones@newcastle.edu.au.
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Levett-Jones
authors.affiliation: Wuhan University School of Nursing, 115 Donghu Lu, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China. Electronic address: 2845map@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Marcia A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Petrini
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing, 3455 SW Veterans' Hospital Rd, SN-4S, Portland, OR 97239, USA. Electronic address: lasaterk@ohsu.edu.
authors.forename: Kathie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lasater
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000941:ethics*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D013338:Students, Nursing
keywords: Ethical comportment; Film; Nursing students; Teaching strategy; Transformative learning