Urgently Needed, a Radical Transformation of Professional Collaboration and Teamwork by Patricia Benner, copyright 2012 I am writing this month’s newsletter with vivid interprofessional educational innovations fresh in mind from the Josiah Macy Foundation Invitational Conference on Interprofessional Education led by George E. Thibault, MD. This conference brought together a range of healthcare professionals committed …
I hope that members will seriously consider the three positions for teachers and students in their stances: 1. Student Focused: A student centered stance, which focuses primarily, on the students’ preferences, choices, and concerns. 2. Teacher Focused: A teacher performance centered stance where the class, climate, culture and performance is focused on the teacher’s actions …
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Anxiety and fear are two of the greatest learning impediments, yet student nurses and physicians and other professionals learn much of their profession in high risk clinical learning environments. Both the patients and students need clinical faculty willing to be their safety net. We teach in high fidelity simulations and in actual clinical assignments …