Fostering Nursing Students' Moral Decision-Making Through Use of an Affective Learning Module.

Background: The emphasis on disciplinary and preventive approaches to combating academic misconduct does little to foster student professional identity and core nursing value formation. Problem: There is a need for pedagogy designed to navigate moral decision-making within ambiguous areas of practic...

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Publicado en:Nurse Educator Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 236 - 241
Autores principales: Morrill, Deborah, Westrick, Susan J.
Formato: tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Jul/Aug2022
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Sumario:Background: The emphasis on disciplinary and preventive approaches to combating academic misconduct does little to foster student professional identity and core nursing value formation. Problem: There is a need for pedagogy designed to navigate moral decision-making within ambiguous areas of practice as nursing students integrate personal and professional values while becoming a nurse. Approach: Rest's theory of moral development offers a framework for constructing purposeful affective learning activities that operationalize moral sensitivity, judgment, motivation, and character, whereas Krathwohl's theory provides a means to identify affective learning objectives. Offering prelicensure nursing students an opportunity to discuss, reflect on, and consider actions and consequences associated with academic and practice-based situations forms the basis for this affective learning module that fosters connections between academic and professional behaviors of integrity. Conclusion: Rest's theoretical model provides a viable structured approach to moral development. Curriculum designed to engage moral decision-making offers an innovative approach to cultivating student integrity.