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Simulation for Formative Clinical Learning—Comprehensive Sim Labs Make Students More Practice-Ready at The Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing, Montana State University

Patricia Benner, MSN, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN. John Benner, Ph.C., University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Dr. Benner and the Educating Nurses Team spent a week touring the Montana State University Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing, and were able to observe and record their revolutionary use of simulation across all 5 campuses. This article highlights …

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Simulation for Formative Clinical Learning—Comprehensive Sim Labs Make Students More Practice-Ready at The Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing, Montana State University

Patricia Benner, MSN, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN. NOTE: Dr. Shannon generously included the course design guidelines at the conclusion of this article.   Dean Sarah Shannon and faculty colleagues have re-imagined how Simulation courses for Clinical Learning can integrate learning goals for all courses.   These clinical learning Sim labs focus on formative learning and integrate …

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Urgent Need: Teaching Strategies that Promote Lifelong Experiential Learning

Innovative Teaching Approaches to Help Students become Practice-Ready Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN John Benner, Doct. Cand. University of Washington, Seattle. Amid an acute nursing shortage, new nurses enter practice with limited experience, creating patient safety problems, high cost of orienting,  high stress and dropout rates for new graduates. The problem is highlighted in research. …

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Facilitating Students’ Learning from Practice: The Centrality of Experiential Learning in Practice Disciplines

Educators in all practice disciplines have erred on the side of thinking that all knowledge is just a matter of “applying” what is conceptually and technically already known, a rational-calculation approach Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN John Benner, Doctoral Candidate at University of Washington, Seattle, WA Experiential learning directly from practice is central to all …

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Creating Safe Learning Environments that Encourage Growth and Active learning.

Patricia Benner, R.N. Ph.D., FAAN, John Benner, Doctoral Candidate New graduate nurses face heavy patient loads, daily life-or-death decisions, nursing work groups with high-turnover rates, and inexperienced co-workers, all made more difficult by the new levels of hospital care demands created by the COVID-19 epidemic. Evidence grows that new graduates are not prepared to meet …

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An Introduction to Classroom Discussion Triggers

by Patricia Benner, copyright 1-30-2015 In honor and appreciation for my Mentor in Nursing Education, Dr. Rheba De Tornay, and with encouragement and examples from Dr. Sarah Shannon at University of Washington, I am introducing the Pedagogical Strategy of “Discussion Triggers”, a provocative, often dramatic introduction to a topic for discussion, inquiry, and problem-solving.  As …

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Clinical Reasoning: A Science-Using Form of Practical Reasoning that Includes a Concern for Responsible Actions Towards Patients/Families.

  Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN Professor Emerita, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. Copyright 2022 This month’s video presents a lecture by Patricia Benner on the nature of Clinical Reasoning, and the importance of focusing on key aspects of clinical reasoning in practice: situational awareness, rapid clinical reasoning, and thinking-in-action. Better understanding and …

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From Novice to Mastery-II, The Dreyfus and Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition in Nursing Practice

Teaching and learning implications of the Dreyfus and Dreyfus Skill Acquisition Model Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN May 30, 2022 In this video Patricia Benner describes and explains the changes that occur with the development of expertise and mastery, based upon extensive research using the Dreyfus and Dreyfus model of Skill Acquisition (Benner, Tanner, Chesla, …

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Enriching the Practice Apprenticeship During a Time of Limited Clinical Placements: Integrating Classroom, Online and Practice Teaching

  Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN Copyright February 6, 2022 We will explore ways to enrich the Practice Apprenticeship in order to improve practice-readiness of nurse graduates (Chan and Burns, 2021; Kavanagh & Sharpnack, 2021) in the midst of limited clinical placements due to the COVID Pandemic. We examined the Ethical Comportment and Formation and …

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Enriching the Cognitive Apprenticeship: Combatting Racism. Practice Apprenticeship: Improving Inter-Professional Communication and Teamwork

  November 8, 2021 Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN We continue to focus on enriching and integrating the three high-end apprenticeships: 1) The Cognitive Apprenticeship dealing with the science, technologies, humanities required for knowledgeable, safe nursing practice; 2) The Practice Apprenticeship focuses on skilled know-how,  the productive higher-order thinking in action required for safe and …

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