Paper
Friday, July 13, 2007
The Application of Case- Problem Based Learning on the Curriculum Design of Advance Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Shujen Shiau, RN, MPH, PhD, School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan
| Learning Objective #1: The learner will be able to learn the fundamental framework of educaion in order to apply Problem Basedd Learning in Nursing |
| Learning Objective #2: The learner will be able to learn the specific combined strategy of Case Oriented and Problem Based Learning in Advanced Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing |
Problem Based Learning(PBL) has been applied on the revolution of nursing education currently, however, the feasibility of PBL is better to be considerately on the whole teaching design. The purpose of this study was to explore the fundamental framework of education and strategies related to the application of PBL in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing for master students. Action research method was conducted. This paper analysis the curriculum design process on the application process of PBL on the Advanced Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from academic 2001 to 2005 years and the C-PBL approach (Case- Problem Bases Learning) on academic 2005 year . Results demonstrated (1) the suitable teaching model for conducting this course, (2) analysis the influencing contextual factors: mission, law, student characteristic; faculty characteristic, resource; (3) exploration the elements of curriculum design: objectives, contents, strategies, evaluation (4) the specific strategies of clinical case oriented presentation on PBL . Conclusion was emerged from this study that the fusion of PBL with clinical case was adapted into this course of Advanced Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing for master students.