Cairo University

Faculty of Nursing
1st semester

1st Assignment

Your Personal
Philosophy in Nursing
Education
Presented to :
 Prof.Dr.Nagat Elmorsy
 Ass.Prof.Dr.Sayda Mohamed
 Dr.Ehsan Yehia

Presented by:
Aya Mohamed farouk Mohamed
 My Personal Philosophy in Nursing Education Is
Idealism

1) Purpose of Education:
 Aim of education is to develop the intellectual capacity of the students by helping
them to appreciate broad and ensuring ideas and principles.
 Conscious reasoning in mind: interested in the search for truth through ideas…
with truth comes responsibility to enlighten others, “education is transformation:
Ideas can change lives.”
 According to idealism: Education is spiritual necessity and not nature.

the aim of
education is to develop the intellectual capacity of the students by
helping them to appreciate broad and enduring ideas and principle
the aim of
education is to develop the intellectual capacity of the students by
helping them to appreciate broad and enduring ideas and principle
aim of
education is to develop the intellectual capacity of the students by
helping them to appreciate broad and enduring ideas and principles.
2) The curriculum:
 Subjects should be taught with an emphasis on abstract principles, holistic
learning and interdisciplinary approach.
 Idealism attaches great importance to those subjects which provide significant
knowledge and wisdom.
 Experiences also corresponding with various activities through which the
learner reach to highest good and inherent values.

3) Role of the teacher:

 Role Model
 Democracy Maker
 Perfection of mind
 Friend, philosopher and guidance
 Role of the teacher is to bring out what is already in student’s mind: reminiscence
 Stimulating the learners awareness of ideas with the teacher asking leading questions
 Guide the students in their search for truths, skillfully promote thinking in students.

4) Role of the learner:

Ambitious: “strives for perfection “

As a learner he/she will discover and develop his/her abilities and full moral excellence
in order to better serve the society.

5) Teaching/Learning process:
Group discussions will be done beside lectures, questioning and limitations. The aim
of these methods is to …discuss, analyze, synthesize, and apply what they have read
to contemporary society

Implication of the View of Philosophy in a program for new staff of

nurse’s orientation in the ICU

1) Purpose of Education:
The purpose of the program is to help the nurses to solve problems in the unit
and to create connection between what they learn in the school of Nursing and
the actual in the unit, through assessing their experiences and building upon it .

2) The curriculum:
It is based on the new nurses experiences, and transforming the experiences of
the clinical instructor to them.

Emphasis on abstract principles of how to deal with critical ill patients

3) Role of the teacher:

Assists the new staff nurses through orienting them to the unit and encouraging
them. Also the teacher is facilitator, mediator, director and guider for the nurses
through his experience in the unit.
 Stimulating the nurses awareness about their ideas in the ICU by asking leading
questions

4) Role of the learner:

Nurses are active participants by their experiences, motivated to know the unit.
The nurses are viewed psychosocial being and directed by their interest for
orienting to the unit.
They set their interests about the points they want to know.

5) Teaching/Learning process:
Group discussions are done, as nurses participate by their prerequisites and the
teacher directs them about the skills they already know and what they prefer to
know, the unit’s policies and rules.
Then experimentation through actual involving in the unite work and
discovering under the direction of the teacher who facilitate it.

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