Research article summary:

Self-directed learning in nurse education: a review of the literature.

Abstract Extract:
RATIONALE: Self-directed learning is essential in assisting nurses to meet the challenges presented in todays health care environment. Nurse educators have an important role to play in assisting nurses to acquire the skills for self-directed learning, ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2003Jul in Journal: J Adv Nurs (Language : eng)

Full Pubmed Extract

This information was retrieved, real-time, on your behalf from the public area of the Pubmed website:

1. J Adv Nurs. 2003 Jul;43(1):62-70

Self-directed learning in nurse education: a review of the literature.

O'Shea E

The Law Library, Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland. heloshea@gofree.indigo.ie

RATIONALE: Self-directed learning is essential in assisting nurses to meet the challenges presented in today's health care environment. Nurse educators have an important role to play in assisting nurses to acquire the skills for self-directed learning, and to do this they need to understand the concept of self-directed learning. AIM: The aim of this review is to explore the concept of self-directed learning and its use in nurse education. METHODS: A review of the literature was conducted using CINAHL, Medline and other databases and the keywords 'self-directed learning', 'student nurses', 'classroom', 'nursing education' and 'adult education'. FINDINGS: The concept of self-directed learning is based on the principles of adult education and can take many different formats. Self-directed learning has many benefits. However, acquiring the necessary skills is dependent on a students' preference and readiness for self-directed learning and nurse educators' implementation of the concept. In implementing self-directed learning, nurse educators become facilitators of learning and require ongoing staff development. Not all students are self-directed and a variety of teaching methods should be used in curricula. CONCLUSIONS: A consensus definition of the concept of lifelong learning does not exist, and students and teachers may have different perspectives on it. Mature students may be more self-directing than school-leavers, and learning styles and readiness to learn need to be assessed when judging the appropriateness of using self-directed learning approaches. However, there are many potential benefits, including increased confidence, autonomy, motivation and preparation for lifelong learning.

PMID : 12801397 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]

This information is obtained from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Abstract text and other information may be subject to copyright. Type "NLM copyright" into Google for more information.

Full Author Information

First Name	LastName	Initials
Ellen	O'Shea	E

Affiliation: The Law Library, Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland. heloshea@gofree.indigo.ie

3rd Party provider links

Click the links below to go to related 3rd party information:

MESH categories and related page links

This article was linked to the MESH categories shown on the left below. The links on the right are related Memletics pages.

Category links from this article:

Curriculum
Education, Nursing - methods
Humans
Programmed Instruction as Topic - standards
Teaching - methods

Links for this article

For links to places where you can get the full text of this article see links. Note there may be a subscription or fee required for access to the full text.

New! Using similar technology to this site, we have launched find-health-articles.com, targeting over 1 million health research article abstracts.

Here are some articles related to this one (by title keywords):

False memories are hard to inhibit: differential effects of directed forgetting on accurate and false recall in the DRM procedure.

Effects of teacher-directed versus student-directed instruction on self-management of young children with disabilities.

Access to nursing education by disabled students: rights and duties of nursing programs.

Strengthening end-of-life care through specialty nursing certification.

Self-control: toward systematic training programs.

Developing the nurses role in rehabilitation.

Using a self-learning module to teach nurses about caring for hospitalized children with tracheostomies.

Self-directed learning in population health. a clinically relevant approach for medical students.

Self-directed, integrated clinical learning through a sign-up system.

>>> Get more research article abstracts like these, or browse abstracts.

Keywords in this article:

acquire, acquiring, adult, aim, approaches, appropriateness, assessed, assisting, autonomy, based, become, benefits, care, challenges, cinahl, classroom, concept, conclusions, conducted, confidence, consensus, curricula, databases, definition, dependent, development, different, directed, directing, education, educators, environment, essential, exist, explore, facilitators, findings, formats, health, implementation, implementing, important, including, increased, judging, keywords, learning, leavers, lifelong, literature, many, mature, medline, meet, methods, more, motivation, necessary, need, not, nurses, nursing, ongoing, other, perspectives, play, potential, preference, preparation, presented, principles, rationale, readiness, require, review, role, school, self, skills, staff, student, students, styles, take, teachers, teaching, today, understand, variety

Also, see our new free speed reading online course (beta version)