Original articleTeaching Core Nursing Values
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Theoretical Perspective on Value-Based Nursing Education
Value-based nursing education appeals to the moral and character development of students. Teaching values requires a conscious connection between the knower and the known (Liaschenko, 1999). This principle requires students to connect with the faculty on value-based issues of importance to them, and visa versa. To do so, faculty members advocate for both a universalist view and a particularist view of moral development (Fahrenwald, 2003). The universalist view specifies that moral reasoning is
Organization of the Undergraduate Curriculum
The conceptual framework for the undergraduate program is derived from The Essentials of Baccalaureate Nursing Education (AACN, 1998). Caring is described as professional behavior that uses both art and science to address all dimensions of the client in nursing practice. Caring “encompasses the nurse's empathy for and connection with the patient (i.e., client), as well as the ability to translate these affective characteristics into compassionate, sensitive, appropriate care” (AACN, 1998, p.
Conclusion
Nursing faculty members are challenged to teach core nursing values that embody the caring professional nurse. Purposeful integration of value-based education throughout all nursing courses in a baccalaureate education program is essential to ensure that nursing students apply the abstract values of human dignity, integrity, autonomy, altruism, and social justice in clinical practice. Values integration throughout the curriculum provides the conceptual, moral, and practical learning necessary
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