Blooms Taxonomy of Education

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Bloom's Taxonomy of Education One area many nurses strive to improve on are patient outcomes. With the education that nurses receive, they can apply their knowledge to develop teaching plans that will enhance the patients understanding of their own learning needs. Bloom’s Taxonomy of education gives nurses direction on how they will apply their knowledge into a more systematic process for educating their patients. Blooms Taxonomy was originally published in 1956 and was mainly used for classifying learning outcomes. In 2001 Bloom’s Taxonomy was revised to include a structure for categorizing cognitive learning. The revised taxonomy helped educators appreciate a broader view of learning, teaching, and assessing (Duan, 2006). The primary goal of the taxonomy is to simplify the education of students using Blooms three domains of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills. These three skills have been shown to promote positive learning outcomes by helping “educators better understand the intended learning” of students which “enables them to design appropriate and congruent instructional activities and evaluation methods” (Su & Osisek, 2011, pp. 321). The first learning domain is the cognitive domain; this is when patients receive most of the knowledge they need for their health care regimens. This is the domain that educators can assess their students to see if they are comprehending the learning method being used. According to Su and Osisek (2011), there are six categories of the cognitive domain used for developmental skills. The first category is to remember; recall information from long-term memory, such as medication names and dosages. The second is to understand; this occurs when a patients can understand what they are being told for instance, why they are on certain medications and the importance of not stopping them without talking to their
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