Bloom's Taxonomy Education Nursing Education
Bloom's Taxonomy of learning and its use in nursing education:
Chronic diseases
Bloom's taxonomy of learning suggests that there are different levels of mastery when a student first confronts a topic. There are also three domains of learning: cognitive, which pertains to mental skills of the acquisition of knowledge; affective, which relates to emotional growth; and the psychomotor domain which pertains to physical skills (Clark, 2015, "Original cognitive"). This taxonomy is not only applicable to students learning in the classroom but also to patients. Nurses can act as teachers, particularly for patients and their families managing chronic disease who must assume many of the healthcare-related tasks performed by nurses in hospital settings.
On a cognitive level, according to Bloom, on the level from simplest to most complex there are the following levels of learning, as located on a hierarchy. The first, knowledge, refers to conveying factual knowledge to the individual: such as the fact he or she is diabetic, has heart disease, or the mechanics of the illness. The nurse must have basic knowledge about the illness which she then transmits to the patient. However, this is only a first step. There must also be comprehension. Can the patient restate what the illness in layperson's terms, in a manner that is meaningful and understandable to him or her?
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