The teaching role of Nursing: a world to be discovered
Section: LEARNING TO TEACH
Authors
Carolina Martín Deniz, Adolfo Sánchez Alemán, María Viera Santana, María José Hernández Guedes, Mireia Santana Santana
Position
Alumnos de Enfermería. Unidad Docente de Estudios de Enfermería de Lanzarote. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Contact email: adolfo.sanchez101@estudiantes.ulpgc.es
Abstract
One of the functions of nursing graduates is teaching. In this area, the most well-known activity is that related to either university teaching or continuous teaching as nursing professionals; but perhaps one the most unknown parts is the work carried out in the community. As Dr. José Luís Medina, both a nurse and educator, puts it, nursing knowledge is constructed on action. “One learns to provide care by providing care” (Medina, 1998), which is the same as saying that the ways in which nursing experts investigate, inquire into things, should be learned, so that the experience of learning leads to “acting like” and “thinking like” a competent professional. Nursing learning “is constructed before, during nursing action and by reflecting on the action that has been carried out”, what Schön called “reflection on the action” and “reflection about the action” 1992. In other words, thinking about what is being done while it is being done in a continuous or spiral manner, in a process of construction of knowledge (know what to do, know how to be and know how to behave).
This article aims to demonstrate how our previous perspective, as nursing students, regarding the teaching role has been transformed be experiencing our role as educators in an educational intervention on the “World Aids Day” and by analyzing the fields which we should delve in.
Keywords:
teaching role; nursing studentscommunity intervention
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