Students speak to an actor as a sullen teen
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Deep Learning While Teaching the Discipline’s Most Important Concepts

    Patricia Benner, copyright September 2014 This month we present Dr. Glenise McKenzie’s flipped classroom video, which focuses on the concept of age-appropriate therapeutic communication. Dr. McKenzie demonstrates how she approaches The Oregon Consortium of Nursing Education (OCNE) concept-based curriculum where the teaching of concepts are contextualized in the four foci of care: Recovery from …

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Glenis McKenzie Simulation with students
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Background Knowledge For Assessing Depression and Suicidal Risk

  Camtasia Podcast By Dr. Glenise McKenzie This podcast prepares students for an Assessment of Depression and Suicide risk on an “adolescent” in the classroom. Dr. McKenzie presents the epidemiology of depression across the lifespan, as well as presenting the assessment tools, genetic, biochemical, and environmental risk factors for depression and suicide across the lifespan. …

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Simulation Actor works with nursing student
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Using Improvisational Actors for Live High-Fidelity Simulation: Pre-Briefing and Debriefing, Keys to Deep Learning from Simulations

Patricia Benner R.N., Ph.D., In Conversation and Association with Dr. Stephanie Sedaris, Copyright 2014 Most agree that much of the learning from simulation comes from post-simulation debriefing and reflection, yet faculty are in the earliest stages of conducting research or even describing what is most and least effective in debriefing sessions after simulations. Prior to …

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Diane Pestolesi teaches a class
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Teaching Our Students to Use Multiple Frames of Reference for Clinical Situations

Why authentic, unfolding case studies are essential in the education of a nurse -Patricia Benner (copyright, 2011) Educational research supports the effectiveness of teaching students multiple ways of thinking, including clinical reasoning, critical thinking, and creative thinking. Clinical Reasoning is a form of practical reasoning, i.e., reasoning across time about the particular through changes in …

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Designing Patient Focused Simulations

Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN Learning a practice discipline is ideal for both simulation and direct experiential learning from practice.  But the design of the simulations must be practice-domain specific and pedagogically sound for teaching good practice.  Teaching nursing practice requires: -Experiential learning in high stakes environments -Expertise Depends on Relational Skills and Clinical Imagination …

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