Actioning curriculum change : a collaboration with student nurses to develop an introductory programme regarding aspects of loss, grief and bereavement

Rogers, Lynda (2002) Actioning curriculum change : a collaboration with student nurses to develop an introductory programme regarding aspects of loss, grief and bereavement. University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.

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Abstract

This study outlines the emancipatory action research journey which was undertaken so as to explore the phenomena related to aspects of loss, grief and bereavement and care of terminally ill and their family in the world of nursing education and practice. This journey does not simply examine the theory related to the phenomena but seeks to create actual change in nurse education using student nurses as the main collaborative force for change. A significant issue to emerge from this explorative study relates to fact that because student nurses are immersed in the real world of clinical practice they are not only able to identify the problems but are able to develop initiatives related to the phenomena creating change in the world of education and practice.

Action field cycles enabled the collaborative groups to develop a programme of study which was adopted into a new nurse education curriculum related to this aspect of professional health care which helps prepare student nurses early in their programme enabling them to transfers this knowledge into the clinical practice environment.

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