The question that has been asked widely is: How can nursing students contribute toward the provision of reliable academic results? The faculty members believe that students should be empowered to make sound decisions about what they want later on in their careers. The only strategy that would achieve this objective was teaching nursing students using case studies. This strategy enables the students (nurses) to make sound decisions at an earlier stage in their career because it is highly involved. This article delves deeper into this learning strategy by giving its strengths, weaknesses, real examples, and recommendations on how and why a case study should be used.
Introduction
This paper sets out to develop a curriculum structure and process in the nursing practice. It studies the different objectives under the topic of fluid balance in the human body. Such include the following: distribution of fluid volume in the human body, how fluids and electrolytes move between intracellular and extracellular compartments, and the way the skin, the kidney, the lungs, and the gastrointestinal tract help to maintain flu
id and electrolyte balance. It begins with a table that shows the alignment of the learning objectives in tandem with national competencies: a scheme of work. Besides, there are two clinical activities that are meant to give students a practical hands-on experience of the nursing practice. It has a number of activities to be performed by students themselves with the teacher only as a guide. It is succeeded by an assignment testing critical thinking of the students and eventually an activity testing reflective thinking (Whitman, 999).
At this level, students need not be taught. The major theme of the teaching was that students should not be taught, meaning that the learning should be facilitated. Depending on someones philosophy of teaching, teaching and facilitation might be considered as one-and-the-same or even as totally different. However, the results of the study show the need for teaching approaches used in nursing graduate education to reflect facilitation. According to Websters online dictionary, facilitation is defined as the act of assisting or improving, or making easier the progress of something.