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Learning Activities for Making the Large Class More Interactive

by Patricia Benner, copyright 2015 Download PDF Learning Activities for Teachers and Nursing Students Related to Bringing the Clinical into Classroom Learning: Compose an unfolding case as recommended by Lisa Day in her interview on using unfolding classes. For example, plan the arc of the story. Make sure patient responses actually occurred, and are real. …

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Discussion Triggers: Putting the Patient First

In this 14 minute discussion trigger taken from American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Dr. Patricia Benner and Dr. Stone address the issues of improving interprofessional collaboration, and recommending early interprofessional education within the health care team. Mutual respect in the context of honoring the patient in the context of Civic Professionalism are discussed. Students …

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Social Justice, Civic Professionalism, and Interprofessional Collaboration

This is a condensed version of the Association of Bioethics and Humanities Plenary Dialogue, September 2014  with Dr. Patricia Benner and Dr. John R. Stone. The discussion addresses the need for more inclusiveness and social justice in the current health care system.  Strategies for addressing this need include focusing on the health of the population, …

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Advanced Directives, and Planning for End-of-Life Discussion

Senior Nursing Students work with Esther, a patient with COPD, who is anxious about her friend with COPD who has just been placed on ventilator assisted breathing, and also anxious about her own disease progression, since she is just home from the hospital. This is a great discussion trigger about working with anxious patients, and …

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Live Improvisational Actor with Freshman Students Conducting a Home Visit to Teach a patient a new Insulin Regimen

Freshman Nursing Students do a home visit in order to instruct the patient and her daughter on a change in insulin routine.  The students encounter aspects of the patient’s usual practices that they did not anticipate.  This video offers realistic problems encountered in patient teaching by novice students.  You may want to compare this early …

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For New Nursing Educators & Educators Who Want Their Classes to be More Interactive & Case-Oriented

The following Six Essential Lessons for entering the world of more interactive and learning focused teaching, demonstrates how to teach for situated thinking and active problem solving. These learning modules reflect the current focus on learning outcomes in teaching and learning, as well as the productive thinking required for situated knowledge use. Using knowledge productively …

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The Hidden Curriculum in Health Professional Education

If slides aren’t loading refresh page. This is an exciting new book on the hidden curriculum in professional education that you won’t want to miss.  I am particularly proud of the contribution by Lisa Day and myself on The Hidden Curriculum in Nursing Education.  View HC Book Flier #1.pdf and other presentations by dhagman.

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Thriving During Your Dissertation Research — The Beginning of the Rest of Your Life

Patricia Benner, copyright 2014 Many faculty are teaching in the midst of completing doctoral studies, and summer is a time when focus on the doctoral studies is planned. Here are some tips I have learned over the last 30 years working with wonderful doctoral students. I wish I could write that sure-to-be bestseller, “How to …

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