NET2019 - Dignity-enhancing learning: A framework to educate undergraduate Nursing students to deliver dignity in care

Emotional literacy is a current topic of interest in healthcare. Empirically derived strategies for learning and teaching remain sparsely reported in the literature. This paper will report on findings from a critical discourse analysis of undergraduate Nursing students’ reflective accounts of pedagogical moments in practice learning experiences. An ethic of care was evident by participants as were the concepts of moral agency and moral courage. Dignity-enhancing learning will be presented as a framework to implement the findings into an undergraduate curricula.