Case Study:Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills
Abstract: This case study describes the journey of revising an online health care ethics course in an accelerated nursing program. The primary goal was to incorporate additional opportunities for fostering critical thinking along with updating the course design to reflect the university’s standard of academic rigor. This required health care ethics course has been known to be challenging from the student’s perspective, due not only to the volume of the work involved, but also to the inclusion of sensitive topics that are addressed such as beginning of life issues and whistle-blowing.
Introduction: This case study describes the process of revising an online health care ethics course, which is a required course in an accelerated nursing program. The primary goal of the revision was to incorporate additional opportunities for fostering critical thinking along with updating the course design to reflect widely held academic standards and rectifying identified challenges. After the revision was complete, the revised course was piloted by one of the authors; the pilot course consisted of twelve students. This course, taught in an 8-week accelerated format journeys into sensitive topics.
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