Nursing Education
What this domain tests
Principles of teaching and learning, domains and objectives, lesson planning, methods, clinical teaching and evaluation.
Core rules
- Bloom's taxonomy: cognitive (remember to create), affective (receiving to characterizing), psychomotor (perception to origination). Match verbs to the domain.
- A measurable objective has an audience, behaviour, condition and degree (ABCD). 'The student will demonstrate hand hygiene according to the WHO five moments with 100% accuracy' is measurable; 'will understand' is not.
- Lesson plan: objectives, content, teaching methods, AV aids, time and evaluation.
- Methods: lecture for facts; demonstration for psychomotor skills; case study and simulation for clinical reasoning; microteaching for feedback.
- Evaluation: formative (during learning) and summative (end of learning); validity (measures what it should) and reliability (consistency).
- Clinical teaching: pre-conference, supervised practice, debriefing and objective structured clinical examination (OSCE).
Worked example
Write an objective for a skill laboratory. Audience: second-year nursing students. Behaviour: perform surgical hand scrub. Condition: in the skills lab using a checklist. Degree: without missing any step. The objective is psychomotor and measurable; the checklist supplies the evaluation standard.
Traps
Using unmeasurable verbs such as 'know' or 'understand'; confusing formative with summative evaluation; choosing lecture for a psychomotor skill; and calling an unreliable tool invalid before checking consistency.