Linda Wagner and Paula Gubrud -Howe sit down with Dr. Benner

OCNE In-Depth: Moving the Boundaries for Clinical Education pt 1

  For this series, we interviewed nurse educator change agents, leaders and students, tracing how the OCNE story unfolded over the last ten years. Both students and educators animated and pushed this change forward in Oregon; faculty and administrators told us of their triumphs in this successful change project. Faculty were honest in describing their …

Linda Wagner speaking

OCNE In-Depth: Moving the Boundaries for Clinical Education Part 2

  For this series, we interviewed nurse educator change agents, leaders and students, tracing how the OCNE story unfolded over the last ten years. Both students and educators animated and pushed this change forward in Oregon; faculty and administrators told us of their triumphs in this successful change project. Faculty were honest in describing their …

A building at Southern Oregon

Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education, An Inspiring Story of Collaborative Change

  Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN copyright 2017 Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education increased Transitions From A.D.N. To B.S.N. Programs; Made A.D.N. Students feel like “First Class Citizens”; Transformed Clinical Education; Created an Ongoing Culture of Innovation and more… The innovative Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education (OCNE) collaborative curriculum exemplifies a stellar collaborative change project …

Glenis McKenzie teaches

Concept-Based Curricula in a Practice Discipline

“…concept-based curricula must not only attend to formal concepts in the general…” Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN Copyright October, 2nd, 2016 Many nursing curricula are using selected formal concepts to organize courses and curriculum. When students learn concepts in one context, it is expected that they will carry that understanding of the concept to other …

Dr. Benner speaking with team teachers

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.  …