title: Nursing and Theater: Teaching Ethics Through the Arts.
abstract: Prelicensure nursing education needs to prepare students for their future roles as professional nurses with ethical and moral decision-making skills. This article describes the use of theater as one approach to teaching nursing ethics at the prelicensure level. Students perform as actors, directors, and discussion leaders in a series of simulated ethical scenarios designed to encourage individual accountability and responsibility for action.
authors.affiliation: Author affiliations: Professor (Dr Coleman) and Assistant Professor (Ms Dick), Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama.
authors.forename: Jennifer J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Coleman
authors.forename: Tracey K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Dick
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D004324:Drama; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D015402:Nursing Education Research