Classic Philosophical Allegory for Teaching Health Promotion in Undergraduate Nursing Education

Nurse educators encourage students to bring knowledge forward and apply it to new situations continuously. However, nursing students are rarely asked to apply their liberal arts knowledge to patient care. In this podcast and teaching tip, Dr. Melissa Klamm presents a teaching approach that used a faculty-assigned reading of Plato's Allegory of the Cave along with faculty-developed parallels between the allegory and health promotion and patient education to review before class.