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ANA Issue Brief on Primary & Ambulatory Care in New Health Care System

A must read for undergraduate and graduate education is the ANA Issue Brief entitled “Nurse Care Delivery Models in Health System Reform: Opportunities for nurses and their patients. As you engage in curriculum transformation keep ambulatory care and primary care in mind for undergraduates and graduates. Please see the new Macy Grant to study Primary …

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Additional Thoughts on Embodiment, Situated Thinking and Practice in the Use of Formal Concepts in Nursing Education and Practice

Patricia Benner, copyright 2013 This newsletter is a response to a reply to our April Newsletter entitled, “Reconceptualizing the Use of Concepts in Curriculum Design.”  We had a number of replies to the April newsletter.  I thought it would be helpful to extend the conversation through this response, since many of the issues raised are …

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Re-conceptualizing the Curricular and Pedagogical Uses of Concepts in Nursing Education

EducatingNurses.com:   Patricia Benner March, 26, 2013, copyright Last September’s Educating Nurses Newsletter, (2012) entitled Situating Concepts and Competencies in Nursing Education, Research, and Practice,  generated a lot of questions about re-thinking and updating the curricular and pedagogical uses of concepts central to nursing practice.  For example, concepts such as oxygenation and stress and coping lend …

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Less is More: Thinking about Deep Learning

Copyright Patricia Benner Newsletter for February 2013   Teaching for a Professional Practice has many additional demands than an introductory survey course. In a professional practice we expect students to develop deep learning that includes the three professional apprenticeships common to Professional Education. Along with my Carnegie colleagues, I am using the word “apprenticeship” metaphorically, and …

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Upgrading and Integrating Clinical and Science Knowledge: New Educational Strategies for New and Future Nursing Students

  Copyright Patricia Benner January 10, 2013 The consensus that radical changes are needed in nursing education is now echoed for a much younger set of students. This spotlights the value of integrating knowledge acquisition and knowledge use, and the need for nursing educators to seek innovative strategies in curriculum change and classroom teaching to …

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University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Leads the Way in Upgrading Science Education Situated in Practice

  copyright Patricia Benner 2012 We think that faculty and graduate students will find these videos extremely useful for faculty development and teacher training. This newsletter will focus on the following topics: Curriculum transformation for current and future nurses Rethinking embodied skilled-know how Situating the upgrading of science education in the practice of nursing Innovative …

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Situating Concepts and Competencies in Nursing Education Research and Practice

Concepts and competencies are useful ways to organize a curriculum.  They identify knowledge and skills that can be used in multiple settings and situations. But they also can unwittingly limit thinking and achievement to an unintended narrow rational-technicality.  By narrow rational-technicality I mean excessive use of formal decision making models, based upon formal decision criteria.  …

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Creating An Engaging Adventuresome, Practice-Centered Syllabus

As you put the final touches on your syllabi for the Fall Term, review your approach to the course with an eye to student engagement in learning. Instead of the limited behavioral objectives, you might add concrete practice-centered goals for the course. Do not be afraid of “I” statements…they can open communication between students and …

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Teaching and Learning Situated Skills of Involvement with Patients and Families

By: Patricia Benner We are learning more and more about the positive outcomes of engagement and the deleterious effects of disengagement (Rubin, 2009). In studies of skill acquisition and clinical reasoning we found that nurses who had problems with engaging with patients, families, and the actual demands, resources and challenges of particular situations did not …

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Pedagogically Sound Uses of Lecture

Lectures should never be considered as a single intent, single style pedagogical strategy. By Patricia Benner, Copyright 2012 In this May Newsletter, we review some of the major legitimate pedagogical uses of lecture, in the classroom, seminar, skills lab. Pedagogical unsound uses of lectures (especially for nursing education) that should be avoided altogether are also …

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