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Can Students be “Test Ready,” “Practice Ready” and be Prepared for the Future?

As nursing educators we need a new appreciation of experiential learning, of perception wedded to action. Our role is to stimulate the student’s curiosity, ability to engage in inquiry, and openness to learn from clinical experience.  Watch brief video excerpts in this newsletter – transformative teaching ahead!   Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN I do …

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The Implications of Teaching and Learning in a Practice: Paying Attention to Situated Thinking and Action in Practice – ARTICLE

  Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN copyright June, 2015 What are the teaching and learning implications of teaching a practice? Practice, as defined here, follows the influential definition from Alasdair MacIntyre’s third edition of After Virtue (2007): A socially organized activity that has socially embedded knowledge, science, traditions,and practices, all with notions of what constitutes good practice that …

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Learning Leadership in an Inner City, Homeless Health Care Center – ARTICLE

Students leave this setting, understanding the difference between managerialism and leadership, and the importance of being an effective change agent as a nurse leader Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, Copyright 2015 This month we present three new community health population-based videos and the excellent teaching of Dr. Ann Beckett, Professor at the Oregon Health Sciences School …

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The Master Teacher Sparks Curiosity and Facilitates Transformative Learning – ARTICLE

By Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN April  28, 2015, copyright 2015 Our EducatingNurses.com Team and I are reflecting on the many provocative and engaging conversations at the ATI Summit in San Diego April 19-22nd, 2015. Our Co-Producer, June Hagman, was asked, “What does being a ‘Master Teacher’ mean? Master Teacher, Dr. Hubert L. Dreyfus describes master …

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A Guide for Clinical Teachers: Deeper Learning in Clinical Learning Experience – ARTICLE

    By Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. , Copyright 2015 Increasingly, clinical teaching is done by Clinical Adjunct Faculty, who may or may not have any formal education in teaching. Clinical Adjuncts may not have had much guidance about what the aims of particular clinical courses are or which students need situated coaching to address …

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Glossary

Glossary[1] Download PDF Agency: one’s sense of and ability to act so as to influence the situation based on understanding what is needed and one’s capacity to act.  This includes, but is not limited to, decision making. For example, each nurse participates in learning skills, and relational abilities in order to engage in ethical comportment …

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Using Live-Actor Simulations to Teach Novice Students

    Copyright, Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. FAAN December 4, 2014 Clinical nursing education demands different pedagogical strategies for the novice (first year of academic clinical education) than the senior student, who has a much better sense of what is most and least important (salience) and much better ability to recognize the nature of the …

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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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Simulation Pre-Briefing and Debriefing: Creating Safe Disclosive Spaces for High Impact Learning

  Stephanie Sideras, R.N., Ph.D., Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. Copyright Patricia Benner, Stephanie Sideras 2014 Clinical nursing faculty experienced in simulation pedagogy seek the deep learning that is possible for students during an intensely realistic situated learning activity.  The ability to structure, control and repeat a specific learning activity for the benefit of novice students …

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