The teaching of nursing from the theoretical perspective of complexity
Section: TEACHING TO LEARN
Authors
Dolores Bardallo Porras
Position
Profesora de enfermería en la Universidad Internacional de Cataluña.
Contact address
C/ Dr. Joseph Trueta, s/n. 08190 St. Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona.
Contact email: bardallo@csc.uic.es
Abstract
Teaching activity has been a common denominator in the professional practice that I have undertaken through my life as a nurse. Several questions have accompanied my journey, engaged in a search for improved nursing practice. The paper I am presenting compiles a collaboration effort comprised of shared ideas, thoughts, and different “know how” that I have been encountering in the incomplete and unfinished path of my personal construction.
Bearing in mind that the university is a privileged space for the production and social exchange of knowledge, it would appear convenient for university teachers to do an exercise of rethinking of the teaching and learning, taking as the starting point the new theoretical approaches that are emerging now, as is the case of the Theory of Complexity. Professionals capable of dealing with complex health problems through multidisciplinary approaches are more and more in demand and appreciated. Because of this, approaching the organisation of the nursing “know how” from the Theory of Complexity is not a “snobbism” but rather the finding of some sense in the interrelations that exist among the postulates of such theory and the reality in which the nurse intervenes.
Bearing in mind that the university is a privileged space for the production and social exchange of knowledge, it would appear convenient for university teachers to do an exercise of rethinking of the teaching and learning, taking as the starting point the new theoretical approaches that are emerging now, as is the case of the Theory of Complexity. Professionals capable of dealing with complex health problems through multidisciplinary approaches are more and more in demand and appreciated. Because of this, approaching the organisation of the nursing “know how” from the Theory of Complexity is not a “snobbism” but rather the finding of some sense in the interrelations that exist among the postulates of such theory and the reality in which the nurse intervenes.
Keywords:
nursing; Theory of complexityteaching
Versión en Español
Título:
La enseñanza enfermera desde la perspectiva teórica de la complejidad
