Development and evaluation of a curriculum for the education of nurses: evaluation of students and their acquisition of the fundamentals of nursing
Aavarinne, H.
Hoitotiede 2(1): 118-123
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0786-5686 PMID: 2322475 Document Number: 362246
A theoretical framework is put forward for the structure of a nursing curriculum and factors pointed out which should be born in mind when planning, implementing and evaluating such a curriculum. The data were acquired of a questionnaire sent to 321 students after their first term at Finnish language schools of nursing. The students' evaluations suggested that the descriptions of the aims of the fundamentals of nursing were of a high communicative standard, and in their opinion they had reached the objectives of the course sufficiently well in the field of the patient's basic physical needs, whereas they had been less successful at appreciating patients' psychological and social needs at that stage in their education. The replies also demonstrate that no connection is normally perceived between the achievement of learning goals in the field of physical needs and the methods used in the teaching of this. A student-centred teaching method was the preferred approach when learning to listen to the patient's needs.