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Facilitating transformation through collaboration.

Ramona Browder Lazenby1, Rhonda Collins Morton

  • 1Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, USA.

Nursing Education Perspectives
|May 15, 2003
PubMed
Summary

Redesigning a course for special education and nursing students fostered essential communication and collaboration skills. Graduates recognized the critical need for teamwork between teachers and school nurses to support medically fragile children.

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Area of Science:

  • Interdisciplinary education
  • Transformative learning theory
  • Special education and nursing

Background:

  • A rural southeastern university course for special education and nursing majors needed restructuring.
  • The existing course focused on health care and educational implications separately.
  • The goal was to improve interprofessional communication and collaboration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To redesign a course using transformative education principles.
  • To foster collaboration between nursing and special education students.
  • To enhance understanding of medically fragile students' needs.

Main Methods:

  • Applied transformative education philosophy to course redesign.
  • Integrated health care and educational perspectives.

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  • Incorporated interactive dialogues, activities, and first-aid/CPR certification.

    • Main Results:

    • Students positively affirmed the inclusion of medically fragile children in classrooms.
    • Both nursing and education majors identified the necessity of interprofessional communication.
    • Collaboration between classroom teachers and school nurses was deemed essential.

    Conclusions:

    • The redesigned course successfully promoted interdisciplinary understanding.
    • Effective collaboration between educators and nurses is vital for medically fragile students.
    • Transformative education principles can enhance interprofessional training.