Curricula requirements

In the United Kingdom (UK) increasing emphasis has been placed on ethics in the nursing curriculum and all nursing programs now include ethics. The reasons for this are multi-faceted and include societal issues, such as, continued technological improvements in healthcare, an ageing population, resource allocation issues, and the changing role of the nurse. This has resulted in a heightened awareness of the underlying moral dimension of healthcare practice in general and nursing practice in particular (Scott, 1988).

The ethical content of the curriculum is based upon the Fitness for Practice Curriculum Guidelines (National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, 2000), which brings together the statutory and professional requirements relevant to pre-registration nurse education. Fitness for Practice is based around four domains, one of which is the professional and ethical domain which identifies outcomes and competencies relating to professional, ethical and legal issues relevant to healthcare. The curricula outcomes and competencies provide the framework for the overall curriculum content relating to ethical and professional issues relevant to healthcare. Student nurses must achieve these outcomes and competencies in order to progress in the program and register as a nurse.

One of the main challenges for nurse educators was how to integrate the required professional, ethical and legal content into an already overcrowded curriculum and make it meaningful to practice. In this particular case the challenge was met by making the most effective use of the learning, teaching and assessment strategies in order to ensure integration and thus enhance learning. This process and the resulting integrated approach to learning, teaching and assessment will now be considered in more detail.

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An Integrated Approach to Learning, Teaching and Assessment in a Healthcare Ethics Module Conclusions

Module evaluation

Peer learning

Assessment strategy

Lecturer as facilitator

Learning and teaching strategies

The module Ethics in Healthcare

Integration what it means

An Integrated Approach to Learning, Teaching and Assessment in a Healthcare Ethics Module

Perspectives of Teachers and Students towards Assessment Conclusions

Norm-referenced assessment (NRA) in teaching staff grading

Grading descriptors