Laurie N. Gottlieb, R.N., Ph.D. & Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. This Newsletter celebrates the publication of Dr. Laurie Gottlieb’s new book Strengths-Based Nursing Care: Health and Healing for Persons and Family, and is a collaborative article based upon a wonderful Inaugural Conference organized by McGill University Ingram School of Nursing in Montreal, Canada in …
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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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 …
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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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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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 …
Curriculum Implications for the Current Major External Reports on Nursing Education: The Carnegie National Study of Nursing Education; The IOM/Robert Wood Johnson, The Lancet and Quality and Safety in Reports Originally Prepared by Patricia Benner for Seattle University School of Nursing Curriculum Committee and Faculty. September 14, 2011. Edited by Patricia Benner for EducatingNurses.com, March …
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Welcome and thank you for your interest in joining me and many other nurses and nurse educators in revitalizing and transforming nursing education. We have done an amazing job in getting much needed research and research infrastructure in Nursing over the past 35 years; essential and outstanding accomplishments of many dedicated nurse scholars! Now it …
] The co-authors present key insights from their immersion in the Carnegie Study. Dr. Victoria Leonard is a Family Health Nurse Practitioner and is a noted researcher and consultant in family health care, infant and early childhood caregiving. At the time of the study, Dr. Leonard was teaching nursing at The University of San …
by: Patricia Benner Many schools of nursing are embarked upon transforming their nursing curriculum in response to the Carnegie National Study of Nursing Education, the IOM/Robert Woods Johnson Futures Report, the Lancet Report, The Essentials of Baccalaureate Nursing Education, and the QSEN Report on Quality and Safety Education for Nurses. These external demands are met …
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