Blooms Taxonomy and Nursing Education

NUR 427 Health and Chronic Disease Management

Bloom's Taxonomy and Nursing Education

Bloom's Taxonomy model has three domains. These are cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. Nurses use these three domains when they are teaching patients. It takes knowledge, attitude, and skills for patients to learn something new that they will need to know to take care of themselves effectively. Nurses use Blooms educational information to develop teaching plans that work.

Bloom's revised cognitive domain (Krathwohl, 2002) is about the knowledge gaining portion of a student or patient's efforts. In the first two steps a patient is gaining knowledge about her new diagnosis and the nurse needs to get the patient the information so she can start to remember...