This is a dramatization of the medical error that caused the death of this Pilot’s wife, in what should have been a simple routine surgery. This is a great presentation on patient safety and team work problems that contribute to patient care errors. In this re-enactment of a real event, the physicians are fixated on …
Patricia Benner Copyright February 2014 I invite you to take a look at the preview of Educating Nurses’ video “Making the Large Class Interactive Engaged” I am struck as I continue to study expert teachers by how fluently they use narratives in embodying and embedding a situated understanding of science, clinical reasoning and clinical …
The teacher busy “transmitting information” seldom can drink from the well of what the student, patient, and the subject matter have to teach. Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D. Master Teacher Hubert L. Dreyfus believes a good teacher-learner needs curiosity, engagement, and passion for learning By definition, these personal characteristics call us as teacher to be fully alive to …
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 …
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 …
One of the oldest pedagogies is that of dialogue and questioning to prompt thinking and extending understanding of different sorts; I have the Socratic Dialogues in mind. Dr. Lee Shulman, former President of Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching speaks of “The Socratic Monologue” from his research on medical education. He describes a physician …
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