Inclusive learning, diversity and nurse education

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Cunningham, S. and Lambert, N. 2020. Inclusive learning, diversity and nurse education. in: Cunningham, S. (ed.) Dimensions on Nursing Teaching and Learning: Supporting Nursing Students in Learning Nursing Cham, Switzerland Springer. pp. 65-81
Chapter titleInclusive learning, diversity and nurse education
AuthorsCunningham, S. and Lambert, N.
Abstract

Students embarking on undergraduate nursing programmes face many challenges. They must adapt to raised academic expectations, learn a bewildering new range of skills, values and behaviours, and begin to negotiate complex and emotionally demanding practice environments and relationships. In addition to practicalities such as moving away from support networks, constrained finances and perhaps being in a work environment for the first time, nursing students must incorporate changes into their personal identities and form a professional sense of self. How well students are supported to respond to these expectations via their own networks and through engagement and connection with their new profession and programme can shape their potential for achievement.
The nursing profession advocates for non-discriminatory inclusive care for all, as well as advocating for a wider diversity of care professionals. This means actively promoting inclusion in programme recruitment and development strategies. However, these aims are hindered by student attrition which is a significant issue throughout higher education in Britain including nurse education. Data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in 2016/17 indicates that students facing multiple disadvantage are more likely to leave university in their first year than their peers. As well as being a clear example of social injustice, unequal completion rates reduce the projected workforce and disrupt supply and planning.
Discounting gender disparities, nursing has a strong record for recruiting and training a broad range of students, but completion rates emerge as lower than for other subjects. An influencing factor here may be that as the professional demands of nursing have intensified, so has the academic rigour required to deliver corresponding competency requirements. Nurse educators need to be creative and flexible to enable students to engage with complex learning which ranges from higher order thinking skills, and philosophical and ethical understandings, to intricate physical tasks. This creates challenges for inclusive curriculum design as well as needing to effectively facilitate it, it must be accessible to a diverse body of nursing students who may have strengths in terms of life experience but who present across the range of academic competence and confidence.
Inclusive learning and teaching is advocated as best practice in providing a response to these issues. However, inclusivity is a contested concept, with varied uptake and it sits within a higher education context of financial restrictions, larger class sizes and a push for more online provision. What is clear though is that academic outcomes across student groups are unacceptably varied with significant attainment gaps for those with multiple disadvantages. A key question for nurse educators is how best to develop an evidence base for the pedagogical approaches that are most likely to enable the completion of successful student nurse journeys for all, regardless of their starting point.

Sustainable Development Goals4 Quality education
Page range65-81
Book titleDimensions on Nursing Teaching and Learning: Supporting Nursing Students in Learning Nursing
EditorsCunningham, S.
PublisherSpringer
Place of publicationCham, Switzerland
ISBN
Paperback9783030397661
Electronic9783030397678
Publication dates
Online19 Mar 2020
Print19 Mar 2020
Publication process dates
Deposited09 May 2022
Output statusPublished
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39767-8_5
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