Case studies for Nursing Lecturers
What topics are covered?
- Professional and clinical practice
- Ethics
- Nursing Management
Features
- Short (1 500 words) and long (3 000 words) case studies accompanied by 4 - 8 questions
- A summary of the key concepts, a depiction of the scenario and questions to guide discussion of the key concept
- Based on actual scenarios in real healthcare settings (identities changed to protect individuals)
- Discussion points to stimulate classroom engagement.
Case Studies
Nursing Professional Practice - This case study explores professional practice in an under-resourced hospital in the Eastern Cape:
Nursing Ethical Dilemma - This case study explores an ethical dilemma at a provincial hospital ward.
Professor Katherine Merseth of the Harvard Graduate School of Education provides advice on how to use cases studies in small classes.
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A good case should illustrate the uncertainty and doubt, pitfalls and fallibility that are part and parcel of decision-making.
- Christer Stensmo